Die Hölle von Verdun

Overview

In 1916, the name of the French fortress town of Verdun came to symbolize the greatest battle of attrition of all time - a portent of mass death on the battlefields of the 20th century. Based on selected individual fates, the film "The Hell of Verdun" tells the story of a military inferno in which people were regarded as material, not as individuals. More than 700,000 soldiers, German and French, died, were wounded or remained missing, without the course of the front changing significantly.

Directed by Oliver Halmburger, Stefan Brauburger

Top cast

Johannes Oliver Hamm

Charles Delvert

Markus Baumeister

Karl Rosner

P

Peter Stock

Anatole Castex

A

Agnieszka Han

Cilette Castex

Edward Kalisz

Eugène Raynal

Jarosław Kostrzewa

Dr. Moses Strauss

H

Helmut Winkelmann

Narrator

R

Rolf Schult

Narrator

O

Olaf Renoldi

Narrator

B

Birgitta Assheuer

Narrator

H

Henrik van Ypsilon

Narrator

G

Götz Bielefeldt

Narrator

D

Daniel Werner

Narrator

O

Oliver Preusche

Narrator

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