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Children, Mother, and the General

6.4 average rating
★★★★★
6.4
German / 110 MIN. / 1955

The Genres

The Synopsis

As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.

The Cast

Hilde KrahlTherese GiehseUrsula HerkingAlice TreffBeate KoepnickMarianne SinclairBernhard WickiEwald BalserClaus BiederstaedtRudolf FernauMaximilian SchellKlaus KinskiHans Christian BlechOtto LüthjeAdi LödelHolger HildmannPaul Edwin RothAlfred SchieskeHans FriedrichTil KiweHans MahlerElke AberleHorst BeckJohannes BuzalskiHermann KnerKarl Striebeck

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