Erziehung vor Verdun

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

Werner Bertin

Benjamin Besson

Leutnant Kroysing

Milan Neděla

Hauptmann Niggel

Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Wilhelm Pahl

Jürgen Hentsch

Karl Lebede

Carl Heinz Choynski

Unteroffizier Glinski

Axel Dietrich

Unteroffizier Süßmann

Uwe Kockisch

Christoph Kroysing

Klaus-Peter Thiele

Leutnant Mettner

Klaus Manchen

Pater Lochner