The Edelweiss Pirates

The Edelweiss Pirates — Plot

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 date
• August 29, 2004
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama, History, War
• Director
• Niko von Glasow

The Edelweiss Pirates — Cast

Bela B. Hans Steinbrück Ivan Stebunov Karl Ripke

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Simon Taal Peter Ripke Anna Thalbach Cilly Serve Jochen Nickel Josef Hoegen Jan Decleir Ferdinand Kütter Wolfgang Michael Peter Hüppeler Irina Sokolova Friedel Krämer