I was 19 (Ich war neunzehn)Director Konrad Wolf's most autobiographical film is a poetic exploration of the postwar dilemmas of German identity and a powerful document of the search for a 'usable' German past after the debacle of film censorship in 1965.
This uncompromising film is a true landmark of postwar German cinema, ranked by film critics among the top 100 Most Significant German Films of all time.
Having fled Hitler for the Soviet Union with his parents as a child, soldier Gregor Hecker returns to Germany with the victorious Soviet troops. Suddenly he is different from his comrades in arms, for this defeated country is also his homeland.
