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.
Cast
- Klaus Piontek as Werner Bertin
- Benjamin Besson as Leutnant Kroysing
- Milan Neděla as Hauptmann Niggel
- Dietmar Richter-Reinick as Wilhelm Pahl
- Jürgen Hentsch as Karl Lebede
- Carl Heinz Choynski as Unteroffizier Glinski
- Axel Dietrich as Unteroffizier Süßmann
- Uwe Kockisch as Christoph Kroysing
- Klaus-Peter Thiele as Leutnant Mettner
- Klaus Manchen as Pater Lochner