Released
The Edelweiss Pirates
August 29 2004 (over 20 years ago)Rating
52
Based on
15 reviews
- Director: Niko von Glasow
- Genres: Drama, History, War
- Runtime: 1 h 40 m
- Countries: Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands
- Companies: Palladio Film, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, First Floor Features, X Filme Creative Pool, WDR
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.
