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SummaryIn August 1914, in the general rapture about the impending war, the 17-year-old Munich citizen's son Hans Gastl made a decision: he would not take part in this war. This decision means a turning point in his life, farewell to his class, his family. His notions of "becoming different" are still nebulous, but they are associated with a meaningful life in a just society. The decision does not come spontaneously: Already as a child Gastl, the son of a senior public prosecutor, rebelled against the saturation and false morals in the parental home. In his relationship with his classmates Feck and Freyschlag he was constantly torn between admiration for their courage and disgust for the evil tricks. He thinks of the friendship with the Jew Löwenstein and the worker boy Hartinger and the tragically ending love with the prostitute Fanny.
(Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946-1992)
Shotlist
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Decade1960
Production Year1968
Release date10 Oct 1968
GenreFiction
Country of Production
ActorsDoris Thalmer, Wilhelm Gröhl, Rolf Ludwig, Katharina Lind, Eckhard Bilz, Erich Mirek, Klaus Hecke, Fritz Links, Heinz Laggies, Heidemarie Wenzel, Wolfgang Greese, Heinz-Dieter Knaup, Helmut Schreiber, Herbert Dirmoser, Ernst-Georg Schwill, Jürgen Heinrich, Hans Klering, Jan Spitzer, Martin Flörchinger, Ralf Herrmann, Fred Delmare, Hans Knötzsch, Arthur Joop, Werner Wieland, Manfred Krug, Karin Freiberg, Mathilde Danegger, Brigitte Lindenberg, Rolf Römer (auch: Rolf Specht), Bodo Krämer, Hanna Donner, Carl Heinz Choynski, Reimar Johannes Baur, Annekathrin Bürger, Wilfred Mattukat
