EDELWEISS PIRATES
by Niko von Glasow
synopsis
Spring 1945. The Americans march into Cologne. Documents are burning at the Gestapo's headquarters. Prisoners are being lined up. At the last minute, superintendent Kuetter tries to get the orders to execute them. But all lines are dead. Kuetter shoots himself. The prisoners survive. One of them is Karl, a 17-year-old boy. Karl remembers his life before. One and a half years previously, his life is about as normal as normal can be in a bombed out town. His mother is dead, his father is on the front, and he lives together with his younger brother Peter. Peter is a member of the Hitler Youth, Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate, the natural enemies of his brother's gang. Karl is also in love with his fallen brother's fiancee, Cilly. Karl's life changes when he and his friends find a runaway prisoner named Hans. Until Cilly falls in love with Hans...
international title: | EDELWEISS PIRATES |
original title: | EDELWEISSPIRATEN |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Cinernavault Releasing International Inc. (CA) |
year: | 2004 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Niko von Glasow |
film run: | 95' |
screenplay: | Kiki von Glasow |
cast: | Iwan Stebunov, Bela B. Felsenheimer, Anna Thalbach, Jochen Nickel, Jan Decleir, Simon Taal, Jean Juelich, Wolfgang Michael, Volker Roehlich |
cinematography by: | Jolanta Dylewska (P.S.C.) |
film editing: | Oliver Weiss, Andreas Wodraschke |
art director: | Vera Zelinskaya |
music: | Andreas Schilling |
producer: | Niko von Glasow |
production: | Palladio Film GmbH & CO KG, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, X Filme Creative Pool |
backing: | Filmförderungsanstalt FFA, BKM, Filmstiftung Nordrheln-Westfalen |