Erziehung vor Verdun

*9.0

Status

Released

Production

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Aired

1973-11-25

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.