Edelweisspiraten

2004 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / History / War

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 610 610

nazi resistance

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Niko von Glasow Photo
Niko von Glasow

Top cast

Oleg Korytin Photo
Oleg Korytin as Alterer Wachmann
Anna Thalbach Photo
Anna Thalbach as Cilly Serve
Andrey Fedortsov Photo
Andrey Fedortsov as Josef Moll
Irina Sokolova Photo
Irina Sokolova as Friedel Krämer
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895.03 MB
1280*714
German 2.0
Not Rated
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25 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.62 GB
1920*1072
German 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

I enjoyed this movie - however amazon did

I enjoyed this movie - however amazon did not show the subtitles in english, and it was in german, which i can't understand, it does show that there was a resistance to the nazis by the germans.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Have you ever heard of the Edelweiss Pirates

Have you ever heard of the Edelweiss Pirates? This film is based on them; a group of anti-Nazi teenagers opposed to Nazism and bitter enemies of the Hitler Youth. In November 1944 13 members of the Ehrenfeld Group (including six teenaged Edelweiss Pirates) were hung in public - the film centres around the events leading up to the hanging, and the people (some fictional, some not) who were involved.
Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

I came across this film by accident, when

I came across this film by accident, when looking up the abuse of young children by the Nazis. It's a very simple story: a group of teenagers rescue a wanted prisoner; the Gestapo are out to find him, and soon discover where he is hiding. This puts the whole group in mortal danger. Karl, the protagonist, has to make an extremely difficult decision about the prisoner's fate and the choice he makes lifts this film from budget indie into a true reckoning with history. There have been some reviews of this, mainly negative. The principle charge being that it's one-note and the camera work isn't great. But the story is incredible. For all the reasons we can imagine, tales of resistance to the Nazis don't get as much traction as tales about the allied forces, and the main narrative is about the holocaust. Yet this shows that there was organised resistance from within and without - that kids who could have saved their own lives opted to resist in a bid to save others.
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