Erziehung vor Verdun
Erziehung vor Verdun

Erziehung vor Verdun

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1973
4h 24m
9.0(1 votes)
TV Movie
War
Drama

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.

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DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Fernsehen der DDR

Cast & Crew

32 members
Acting

Klaus Piontek

Werner Bertin

Klaus Piontek
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Benjamin Besson

Leutnant Kroysing

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Milan Neděla

Hauptmann Niggel

Milan Neděla
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Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Wilhelm Pahl

Dietmar Richter-Reinick
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Jürgen Hentsch

Karl Lebede

Jürgen Hentsch
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Carl Heinz Choynski

Unteroffizier Glinski

Carl Heinz Choynski
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Axel Dietrich

Unteroffizier Süßmann

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Uwe Kockisch

Christoph Kroysing

Uwe Kockisch
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Klaus-Peter Thiele

Leutnant Mettner

Klaus-Peter Thiele
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Klaus Manchen

Pater Lochner

Klaus Manchen
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Ralph Boettner

Oberst Stein

Ralph Boettner
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Paul Arenkens

Major Jantsch

Paul Arenkens
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Ernst Schumacher

Ernst Schumacher

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Directing

Egon Günther

Leutnant Mahnitz

Egon Günther
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Werner Kamenik

Feldwebel Feicht

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Peter Krieg-Helbig

Peter Krieg-Helbig

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Jean-Pierre Franklemon

Schweizer Militärschriftsteller

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Ulrich Teschner

Unteroffizier Böhme

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Willi Scholz

Gefreiter aus Baden

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Achim Petry

Hauptmann Lauber

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Victor Keune

Feldwebel Graßnick

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Directing

Jürgen Klauß

Rechtsanwalt Porisch

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Ernst Ullrich

Barbier Neumann

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Hans-Dieter Schlegel

General

Hans-Dieter Schlegel
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Pelle Pedersen

Axel Krog

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Gerd Blahuschek

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Harald Engelmann

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Hans-Joachim Hegewald

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Heinz Laggies

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Christine Schorn

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Christine Schorn
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Lutz Stückrath

Unknown Role

Lutz Stückrath
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Thomas Thieme

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Thomas Thieme

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