Overview
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
DirectorEgon Günther
ScreenplayEgon Günther, Heinz Kamnitzer
Top Casts
Klaus Piontek
Werner Bertin
Benjamin Besson
Leutnant Kroysing
Milan Neděla
Hauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
Wilhelm Pahl
Jürgen Hentsch
Karl Lebede
Carl Heinz Choynski
Unteroffizier Glinski
Axel Dietrich
Unteroffizier Süßmann
Uwe Kockisch
Christoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter Thiele
Leutnant Mettner
Klaus Manchen
Pater Lochner
Details
LanguageEnglish, French, German
Production companiesDEFA, Fernsehen der DDR