08/15 (1954)

Directed by

Paul May

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

16

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows soldiers in a German army barracks before and during World War I. It shows the harsh routines and failures of military life through the eyes of ordinary men.

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What happens

08/15 is a 1954 West German film directed by Paul May. It is based on the novel 08/15 by Hans Hellmut Kirst, who also served as the film's screenwriter. The term 08/15 (nill-eight/fifteen, German: Null-Acht/Fünfzehn) refers to the German Army's standard machine gun, the 08/15 (or MG 08 model 15), by far the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I. Its tendency to jam led to its name becoming German Army slang for anything that went wrong. 08/15 is also the first part of the 08/15 film trilogy, hence it is also known as Teil 1: In der Kaserne (Part 1: In the Barracks). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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