Ich war neunzehn (1968)
I Was Nineteen (1968)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:58:06 | 6,47 Gb
Audio: German-Russian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, War
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:58:06 | 6,47 Gb
Audio: German-Russian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, War
April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted with the dilemma of having to fight men from the very country he was born in. Through dealing with challenging situations (e.g. he is appointed commander of Bernau, talks to many disillusioned Germans, and is once and again attacked by scattered groups of German soldiers), he grows more confident that not all hope is lost for post-war Germany. Based on the diary entries of director Konrad Wolf, the episodic movie authentically portrays the protagonist's struggle to come to terms with his own past and identity.
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Ich war neunzehn (1968)
SOME OF THE most interesting films of all-time came out of the socialist countries in the late 60s. But while East Germany’s film industry lacked the sheer inventiveness of places like Czechoslovakia or even Russia, some fascinating films were still made. I Was Nineteen is some kind of masterpiece, a dark brooding depiction of the last days of World War Two. We see the film through the eyes of Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), an ex-pat German who fought with the Soviets. He’s only nineteen, a boy who rushed into life forgetting that the door was still open behind him. He’s forced to re-engage with his German-ness, and acknowledge the fact the Germans did some rather horrific things, despite fighting on the side of the ‘good’. He mirrors the conflict of East Germany too – despite being on the ‘good’ side, it had these dark, dark roots.
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Of course given the state film funding model in East Germany, the film does cast the Soviets in a sympathetic light. The film doesn’t sugar-coat the Soviet suffering (which is understated in many accounts – the Soviets did lose an estimated twenty million people in the War). But considering that the film’s predominant audience was to be Germans, the ruthless portrayal of the German behaviour during the war was notably prickly. The film moves from one set-piece to another, the narrative a loose connection of moments in Hecker’s life. The film maintains a convincing realism, and maintains tension and drama throughout. Hecker (and consequently the audience) is shielded from the actual combat until near the end, the narrative delaying the moment that its baby-faced protagonist is forced to acknowledge the immediacy and cruelty of the war.
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The visual style is all over the show, which mirrors the chaos of the goings-on, and the adolescent turmoil suppressed by the atavistic simplicity of war. (In many ways, it’s a precursor for the Soviet war film, Come and See). Things like sudden zoom ins, jagged montage, striking imagery, self-reflexive looks at the camera meant that the film was hodge-podge of New Wave type filmmaking styles. But it holds together remarkably well, assisted by the no-nonsense approach to the war, the excellent acting, and Wolf’s overall refusal to simplify the moral dilemmas. I Was Nineteen is an exceptionally good piece of filmmaking, and an emotionally powerful depiction of a confused nation-state.
Ich war neunzehn (1968)
I WAS NINETEEN is ranked by film critics to be among Germany's 100 most important films of all time.
Ich war neunzehn (1968)
Ich war neunzehn (1968)
Special Features:
- Newsreels
- Introductory Essay
- Set Design Gallery
- Biographies and Filmographies
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