DVD Features:
Audio:
(unspecified) - German
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Materials:
Newsreels
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies
Essays
Galleries - Set Design
Set during the final days of WWII, as the Soviets are advancing into a defeated Germany, I WAS NINETEEN is the story of a German born Soviet soldier named Gregor Hecker who sees his birthplace for the first time marching through the defeated country. As he marches through and begins conversations with Germans he meets, Gregor begins to realize that these people are his countrymen and that he is both one of the victors and one of the defeated.