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Volker Bruch as Wilhelm Winter
When the film opens, in the summer of 1941, the five friends at its center are having a good-bye party at a Berlin bar, vowing naively to reunite by Christmas.
One of them, the earnest soldier Wilhelm Winter, has already fought in Poland and France, but we never learn what he did there; the experience has only made him a tough trooper and a leader of men.
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The same cannot be said for his younger brother, the newly drafted Friedhelm, who cares only about reading Rimbaud, and looks on the whole war less with moral disapproval than aesthetic disdain. The women of the group are Greta, a would-be torch singer, who is too frivolous to have anything to do with politics, and Charly, short for Charlotte, a nurse in training who goes off to the war out of sheer humanitarian idealism: "We represent the German woman," she cheerfully repeats.
The fifth member of the group is, for the film's purposes, the most important of all.
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