Germanic Languages and Literatures German Film Series Fall 2019

Faculty from the German department will introduce a German film that will be shown with English subtitles. There will be a Q & A at the end of the screening. Dinner will be provided.

Ich war neunzehn (I Was Nineteen) follows a young German protagonist (Jaecki Schwarz) who fled the Nazis for Moscow with his left-wing parents as a child, only to return to Germany in 1945 as a lieutenant in the conquering Red Army. This classic of postwar German cinema was produced in 1968 by DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft), the state-owned East German film studio, and directed by celebrated director Konrad Wolf.