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The Edelweiss Pirates (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.

Release: 2004-08-29
Runtime: 100 min
Rating: 5.2 / 10
Cast
Bela B.
Bela B.
Hans Steinbrück
Ivan Stebunov
Ivan Stebunov
Karl Ripke
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Simon Taal
Peter Ripke
Anna Thalbach
Anna Thalbach
Cilly Serve
Jochen Nickel
Jochen Nickel
Josef Hoegen
Jan Decleir
Jan Decleir
Ferdinand Kütter
Wolfgang Michael
Wolfgang Michael
Peter Hüppeler
Irina Sokolova
Irina Sokolova
Friedel Krämer
Svetlana Gaytan
Svetlana Gaytan
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Susanne Bredehöft
Sergey Bekhterev
Sergey Bekhterev
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Jean Jülich
Karl Ripke (old)
Oleg Sokolov
Oleg Sokolov
Gestapo officer