In the late 1980s, two filmmakers interviewed six German men in their 60s and 70s who had been soldiers in the 1942 invasion of the USSR. Each had carried an 8mm camera into battle, and their footage survives.
- Directors
- Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus
- Country
- Germany
- Genre
- War, Documentary
- Release date
- 1990-02-12
- Studios
- Känguruh Film GmbH, WDR
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Late in the 1980s, two documentary filmmakers located six German men, then in their 60s and 70s, who had served as soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each had brought an 8mm camera into battle, and their films still existed. The documentary interweaves interviews with these now older men—apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation—with the footage they shot, presented chronologically: basic training, the train trip east, rooftop views of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing of a Russian plane with carbine volleys, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction, and retreat. As one says, “Home, that was the front.”
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