My Private War
7.4
“Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers”
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.
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Thomas Kufus Director · Harriet Eder Director Johann Feindt Cinematographer
First release February 12, 1990 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German
Production
Känguruh Film GmbH
Production
WDR
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Production
Germany
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Original title
Mein Krieg
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 1990
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