Movielogr
Erziehung vor Verdun (1973)
Directed by Egon Günther
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.
Length 264 minutes
Actors
Klaus Piontek | Benjamin Besson | Milan Neděla | Dietmar Richter-Reinick | Jürgen Hentsch | Carl Heinz Choynski | Axel Dietrich | Uwe Kockisch | Klaus-Peter Thiele | Klaus Manchen | Ralph Boettner | Paul Arenkens | Ernst Schumacher | Egon Günther | Werner Kamenik | Peter Krieg-Helbig | Jean-Pierre Franklemon | Ulrich Teschner | Willi Scholz | Achim Petry | Christian-Viktor Keune | Jürgen Klauß | Ernst Ullrich | Hans-Dieter Schlegel | Pelle Pedersen | Gerd Blahuschek | Harald Engelmann | Hans-Joachim Hegewald | Heinz Laggies | Christine Schorn | Lutz Stückrath | Thomas Thieme