I Was Nineteen
1968
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1h 54min
• Drama, War
Konrad Wolf looked back at his personal journals for this tremendous film, an impressive reckoning with the pitiful ends of war. With subtlety, empathy, and starkest realism, I Was Nineteen illuminates how a homeland now synonymous with “Goethe and Auschwitz” hangs heavy over the heads of the young.
