Kinder, Mütter und ein General (1955)

Drama War

Laslo Benedek interrupted his thriving Hollywood career to return to Europe as director of the German Kinder, Mutter und ein General (Children, Mother and the General). The film is set in Berlin during the last days of WW II. Desperate for manpower, Hitler has ordered that all able-bodied teenaged boys --some as young as 15 -- be drafted into the army. Frau Asmussen (Hilde Krahl) is one of five mothers who learn to their horror that their boys have been slated to be cannon fodder on behalf of the Third Reich. Asmussen and the other mothers head directly to the front to plead with the German generals for the lives of their sons. Not directly an indictment of Germany's involvement in (or incitement of) the recent war, Kinder, Mutter und ein General stresses the futility and heartbreak of all wars everywhere.

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Runtime: 110 mins Rating: 5.0

Cast

Bernhard Wicki

Hauptmann Dornberg

Maximilian Schell

Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht

Ewald Balser

General

Klaus Kinski

Nedeljko Čabrinović

Hans Christian Blech

Feldwebel mit den Orden

Ursula Herking

Dr. Behrens

Otto Lüthje

Bahnhofsvorsteher

Claus Biederstaedt

Verpflegungsgefreiter

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Crew

Erich Pommer

Producer

Günther Rittau

Director of Photography

Erich Kettelhut

Production Design

Werner Pohl

Sound

Herbert Reinecker

Novel

Werner Eisbrenner

Original Music Composer

Anneliese Artelt

Editor

László Benedek

Director

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Kinder, Mütter und ein General (1955)

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