The Edelweiss Pirates (Edelweisspiraten)
Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück, they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother, and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
19 June 1957, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1 June 1973, East Berlin, East Germany
1945, Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
10 April 1959, Witten, Germany
15 June 1955, Heinsberg, Northrine-Westphalia, Germany
14 February 1946, Niel, Flanders, Belgium
13 March 1960, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
14 December 1962, West Berlin, West Germany
