My Private War

About My Private War: 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.

Amateur WW2 Films by German Soldiers

Genres

Documentary • War

Release date

February 12, 1990

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Harriet Eder • Thomas Kufus

Status

Released

Original title

Mein Krieg

Quality

DVDRip

Dub / voiceover

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