Punishment Battalion

Punishment Battalion — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 11, 1960
• Runtime
• 109 min
• Genres
• History, War
• Director
• Harald Philipp

Punishment Battalion — Cast

Sonja Ziemann Julia Deutschmann

G

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