Punishment Battalion (1960)
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
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Cast
- Sonja Ziemann — Julia Deutschmann
- Georg Thomas — Ernst Deutschmann
- Werner Peters — Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
- Ernst Schröder — Dr. Kukill
- Heinz Weiss — Oberleutnant Barth
- Kurd Pieritz — Hauptmann Barth
- Georg Lehn — Wiedeck
- Gerd Frickhöffer — Kronberg
- Klaus Kindler — Oberleutnant Bevern
- Judith Dornys — Tanja
- Hanns Ernst Jäger — Karl Schwannecke
- Werner Hessenland — Gottfried von Bartlitz
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