The Edelweiss Pirates
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Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2004-08-29
Runtime: 100 mins
Director: Niko von Glasow
Writer: Kiki von Glasow, Niko von Glasow
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama, History, War
Original title: The Edelweiss Pirates
Production Companies: Palladio Film, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, First Floor Features, X Filme Creative Pool, WDR
Production Countries: Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands
Cast
Bela B.
Ivan Stebunov
Simon Taal
Anna Thalbach
Jochen Nickel
Jan Decleir
Wolfgang Michael
Irina Sokolova
Svetlana Gaytan
Susanne Bredehöft
Sergey Bekhterev
Jean Jülich
Oleg Sokolov
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