I Was Nineteen Movie Review 1968

Gregor Hecker left Germany with his parents as a eight-year-old. Now, at the end of WWII, he's returning at 19 in the uniform of a Russian Lieutenant and isn't sure of his identity anymore. Based on the diary kept by German filmmaker Wolf when he was in the Russian Army. German with subtitles.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS
Running time 115 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Military: Foreign, Germany, Adapted from Memoirs or Diaries

Cast

Jaecki Schwarz, Wassili Liwanow, Alexej Ejboshenko

Director

Konrad Wolf

Producer

Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)