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Punishment Battalion
Released
1h 49m
2/11/1960
de - DE
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.
History
War
Actors

Sonja Ziemann
Julia Deutschmann

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

Klaus Kindler
Oberleutnant Bevern

Judith Dornys
Tanja

Hanns Ernst Jäger
Karl Schwannecke

Werner Hessenland
Gottfried von Bartlitz

Alfred Balthoff
Stabsarzt Dr. Bergen

Peter Schiff
Assistenzarzt Martienzen