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
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