Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp.
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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
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- Crew
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Status
Released
Release Date
Feb 12, 1987
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama
User Score
53%
Original Title
Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn
Production Companies
DEFA
Director
Michael Kann
Description
Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp.