Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Känguruh Film GmbH WDR
My Private War
"Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers"Movie
Audience Score
1 hr 29 minDocumentary,
War
Plot
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 Its chronological basic training the train trip East rooftop vistas of wartorn 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
