I Was Nineteen (1968)
- Original title
- Ich war neunzehn
- Directed by
- Konrad Wolf
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- German Democratic Republic
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rated
- 12+
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1945, a young German man returns to his home country as a lieutenant in the Soviet Red Army. He confronts the ruins of Nazi Germany and struggles with his own sense of belonging and identity.
contemplativeauthenticslow-burnsombergroundedhistoricalintrospectivereflective
What happens
I Was Nineteen (German: Ich war neunzehn) is a 1968 East German film produced by Konrad Wolf for the DEFA studio. The film tells the story of a young German, Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), who fled the Nazis with his parents to Moscow and now, in early 1945, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army. The film strives to maintain an aura of authenticity and pay homage to history by intersplicing fictional sequences with real documentary sequences and having references to popular/well-known music and literature at the time. The film depicts the personal experiences of the director Konrad Wolf and of his friend Vladimir Gall in fictionalized form and deals with themes of the meaning of "homeland". During its original run, it sold 3,317,966 tickets. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Second Track (1962)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.