Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Harriet Eder Thomas Kufus
Written : Harriet Eder Thomas Kufus
Stars : Erich von Manstein
Genres : War Documentary
Release date : Feb 11, 1990
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German
Production companies : Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Känguruh Film GmbH
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : War Documentary
Release date : Feb 11, 1990
Countries of origin : Germany
Language : German
Production companies : Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Känguruh Film GmbH
