Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... (1987)

Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp.

• Release Date: 1987-02-12
• Runtime: 1h 39min
• Production Company: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
• Production Country: East Germany
• Director: Michael Kann