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The Adventures of Werner Holt (1963)
Director: Joachim Kunert
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Adaptation of an autobiographical novel by Dieter Noll which sets out to tell it like it was for a young man growing up in Nazi Germany. Painstakingly worthy but excruciatingly long, and hopelessly naive in its characterisation of a hero symbolically torn since childhood between two friends, one who enjoys beating people up, the other preferring such weedy intellectual pursuits as piano-playing. Small surprise when, at long last, our hero wakes up to the truth about concentration camps while serving on the Eastern front, and becomes disaffected from Nazism.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Joachim Kunert
Producer: Hans Mahlich, Martin Sonnabend
Cast: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans, Peter Reusse, Dietlinde Greiff, Angelica Domröse full cast
Duration: 164 mins
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