My Private War

My Private War

1990
1h 30m
2.0

2.0/10

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"Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers"

Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Känguruh Film GmbH WDR
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
German

Quick Facts

Original Title Mein Krieg
Release Date February 12, 1990
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0107547

Cast

Key Crew

Harriet Eder
Director
Thomas Kufus
Director
Harriet Eder
Writer
Thomas Kufus
Writer

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