Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to realize that he is different from all his comrades in arms, for this defeated land is his home country, the Germans he meets are his compatriots. He is a victor, but also one of the vanquished. He attempts to understand the Germans he meets along his way, but he is a 19-year-old: inquisitive, occasionally uncomprehending and repeatedly dismayed by the atrocities and lies he encounters.
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I Was Nineteen Cast
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Character |
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Galina Polskikh
She was 28, now 85 years old
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as Sowjetisches Mädchen |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy
He was 49, 82 years old when he died
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as Sowjetisches General |
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Vasiliy Livanov
He was 32, now 89 years old
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as Wadim |
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Hermann Beyer
He was 24, now 81 years old
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as 2. befreiter Häftling |
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Rolf Hoppe
He was 37, now 94 years old
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as Etappenmajor Behring |
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Jaecki Schwarz
He was 21, now 78 years old
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as Gregor Hecker |
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Jürgen Hentsch
He was 31, 75 years old when he died
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as Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant |
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Wolfgang Greese
He was 41, 75 years old when he died
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as Landschaftsarchitekt |
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Dieter Mann
He was 26, now 83 years old
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Afanasi Kochetkov
He was 37, 74 years old when he died
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Jenny Gröllmann
She was 20, 59 years old when she died
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as deutsches Mädchen |
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Martin Trettau
He was 38, 77 years old when he died
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Walter Bechstein
He was 49, 64 years old when he died
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Klaus Manchen
He was 31, now 88 years old
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Wolfgang Winkler
He was 27, 79 years old when he died
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Fritz Mohr
He was 48, 72 years old when he died
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as Feldwebel |
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Kurt Böwe
He was 38, 71 years old when he died
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as SS-Sturmbannführer |
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Johannes Wieke
He was 54, 68 years old when he died
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as Oberst Lewerenz |
I Was Nineteen Crew
