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08/15 is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Paul May with Joachim Fuchsberger

08/15 (1954)

08/15
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Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    War
Rating68% 3.437033.437033.437033.437033.43703

08/15 is a 1954 West German film directed by Paul May and based on the novel 08/15 by Hans Hellmut Kirst who also served as the film's screenwriter. The term 08/15 (nill-eight/fifteen, German: Null-Acht/Fünfzehn) refers to the German Army's standard machine gun, the 08/15 (or MG 08 model 15), by far, the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I. It was manufactured in such large quantities that it became the German Army slang for anything that was standard issue. 08/15 is also the first part of the 08/15 film trilogy, hence it is also named Teil 1: In der Kaserne (Part 1: In the Barracks).

Synopsis

The movie starts in Germany 1939, in the barracks of an artillery battalion. The enlisted men of the battery are harassed by their Wachmeister Schulz and a platoon leader, Feldwebel Platzek, whenever possible. Especially Gunner Vierbein, who has a passion for music and wanted to become a piano player, is a preferred target. This intensifies when Vierbein is ordered by Schulz to carpet beating in his rooms and Schulz´s wife, Lore, starts flirting with him. Even the squad leader Unteroffizier Lindenberg, who is known to be fair and correct, starts under pressure from Schulz to pick on him. He breaks down under the constant hard drill and harassment; when he steals ammunition on a rifle range, to commit suicide, one of his comrades, Gefreiter Asch, who helps him constantly to get along with the military life, prevents this and decides that the harassment by the NCOs can´t go on.

Actors

Joachim Fuchsberger

(Gefreiter Asch)
Peter Carsten

(Stabsgefreiter Kowalski)
Hans Christian Blech

(Wachtmeister Platzek)
Helen Vita

(Lore Schulz)
Mario Adorf

(Wagner)
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