Mein Krieg

"Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers"

May 21 1993 N/A 1h 30m
Documentary, War

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.

Plot

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.

Written by

Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus

Directed by

Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus

Cast

Erich von Manstein

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany

Production Companies

WDR, Känguruh Film GmbH

Languages

Deutsch, English

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
208
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA