I Was Nineteen

I Was Nineteen
I Was Nineteen
Directed by	Konrad Wolf
Written by	Wolfgang Kohlhaase; Konrad Wolf;
Produced by	Herbert Ehler
Starring	Jaecki Schwarz; Vasily Livanov; Alexey Eybozhenko; Dieter Mann;
Cinematography	Werner Bergmann
Edited by	Evelyn Carow
Release date	1 February 1968;
Running time	115 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German
Budget	2,077,000 East German Mark

I Was Nineteen (German: Ich war neunzehn) is a 1968 East German film produced by Konrad Wolf for the DEFA studio.

The film tells the story of a young German, Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), who fled the Nazis with his parents to Moscow and now, in early 1945, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army. The film strives to maintain an aura of authenticity and pay homage to history by intersplicing fictional sequences with real documentary sequences and having references to popular/well-known music and literature at the time. The film depicts the personal experiences of the director Konrad Wolf and of his friend Vladimir Gall in fictionalized form and deals with themes of the meaning of "homeland".

During its original run, it sold 3,317,966 tickets.

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