Böll közlegény megmentése

The film is about three months of Heinrich Böll’s life, in the summer of 1944. At the age of 26, the later Nobel Prize-winning writer was recuperating in Hungary as a corporal in the Wehrmacht. He wrote to his wife Annemarie every day. The letters remained. Our documentary was made based on these intimate, honest writings. Böll stood by his pacifism and humanism throughout his life, and these personality traits are also reflected in his wartime letters. During the period discussed in the film, the Normandy landings took place, the Jews were taken from Hungary and the von Stauffenbergs tried to kill Hitler. Böll reports on all of these – in this case, we open up his microworld. War survivors speak at each location. The epilogue is narrated by René Böll: his father escaped, became a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and lived his whole life with the woman to whom he wrote the letters. How was Private Böll able to survive physically, mentally, spiritually and morally? How did your stay in Hungary affect your work? History from below.