The Edelweiss Pirates
29/08/2004
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.
Movie Information
Bela B.
as Hans Steinbrück
Ivan Stebunov
as Karl Ripke
Simon Taal
as Peter Ripke
Anna Thalbach
as Cilly Serve
Jochen Nickel
as Josef Hoegen
Jan Decleir
as Ferdinand Kütter
Wolfgang Michael
as Peter Hüppeler
Irina Sokolova
as Friedel Krämer
Svetlana Gaytan
as
Susanne Bredehöft
as
Sergey Bekhterev
as
Jean Jülich
as Karl Ripke (old)
Oleg Sokolov
as Gestapo officer
