Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Cast

Joachim Hansen

as Oberleutnant Wisse

Wilhelm Borchert

as Gen. Friedrich Paulus

Wolfgang Preiss

as Major Linkmann

Carl Lange

as General von Seydlitz

Horst Frank

as Feldwebel Böse

Peter Carsten

as Gefreiter Krämer

Richard Münch

as Oberstleutnant Kesselbach

Günter Pfitzmann

as Wachmeister Kunowski

Sonja Ziemann

as Katja

Gunnar Möller

as Leutnant Fuhrmann

Reviews

John Chard

A dead soldier dose not care who won or lost. Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Dogs, do you want to live forever?) Is directed by Frank Wisbar and adapted to screenplay by Wisbar, Frank Dimen and Heinz Schröter from the Fritz Wöss novel. It stars Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss and ...

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