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The Adventures of Werner Holt (1963)

Director: Joachim Kunert

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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

Time Out Film Guide

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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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