I Was Nineteen
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| Directed by | Konrad Wolf |
| Produced by | Herbert Ehler |
| Written by | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf |
| Starring |
Jaecki Schwarz Vasily Livanov Alexey Eybozhenko Dieter Mann |
| Cinematography | Werner Bergmann |
| Edited by | Evelyn Carow |
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115 minutes |
| Country | German Democratic Republic |
| Language | German |
| Budget | 2,077,000 East German Mark |
I Was Nineteen (German: Ich war neunzehn) is a DEFA production that 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 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.
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