Winterspelt 1944
movie
View on VideBits →In the Second World War, spring 1944: shortly before the planned Ardennes offensive, Germans and Americans stand waiting on the German-Belgian border. The small Eifel village of Winterspelt threatens to become the scene of a bloody battle. A German officer comes up with a plan to hand over his battalion to the Americans without a fight. He finds support from three inhabitants of the small village, who help him to present his offer of surrender to the Americans, which they ultimately reject.
Cast & crew
George Sewell · Henning Schlüter · Karlheinz Lemken · George Roubicek · Eberhard Fechner · Ulrich von Dobschütz · Hans Christian Blech · Ulrich Radke · Katharina Thalbach · Frederick Jaeger · Claus Theo Gärtner · Alfred Andersch