The Edelweiss PiratesMovie
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.
About The Edelweiss Pirates
The Edelweiss Pirates is a 2004 drama, history, war movie directed by Niko von Glasow.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 40m, production credits from Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, an original language code of DE.
The credited cast includes Bela B., Ivan Stebunov, Simon Taal, Anna Thalbach. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
