In 1914 Berlin, bank heiress Leonore Wahl and struggling Munich student Werner Bertin fall passionately in love, defying class and her parents’ expectations. Their idyll is shattered by the outbreak of WWI: Werner, swept up in patriotic fervor, is conscripted to the Western Front, while Leonore, pregnant and abandoned, faces her family’s condemnation and a clandestine abortion. Set against the tumult of war, the film explores idealism, social divides, and the personal costs of duty and desire.
Length 152 minutes
Jutta Hoffmann | Klaus Piontek | Inge Keller | Fred Düren | Martin Flörchinger | Thomas Wolff | Heidemarie Wenzel | Erwin Nowiaszek | Zofia Rysiówna | Elsa Grube-Deister | Manfred Krug | Ruth Kommerell | Johannes Wieke | Norbert Christian | Jürgen Holtz | Tessy Fehring-Bortfeld | Winfried Glatzeder | Friedrich Teitge | Carmen-Maja Antoni | Fred Delmare | Gerry Wolff | Angela Brunner | Kurt Kachlicki | Otto Busse | Sepp Klose | Heinz Laggies | Walter Lendrich | Wolfgang Pampel | Horst Papke | Maria Rouvel | Willi Schwabe | Kurt Sperling | Jan Spitzer | Ernst Steiner | Hanna Rieger | Günter Sonnenberg | Wolfgang Greese | Rolf Ripperger | Lothar Förster | Rosa Lotze | Ilse Bastubbe | Otto-Erich Edenharter