Zero Hour () is a 1977 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Kai Taschner and Anette Jünger. The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig, where the Americans have just pulled back and been replaced by Soviet troops. The film follows the inhabitants as they adjust to the new situation, in particular Joschi, a teenage Hitler Youth member who is fascinated by the Americans.

The film was produced through Edgar Reitz Filmproduktions in collaboration with Bernd Eichinger's Solaris Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Westdeutscher Rundfunk. It was released in theatres on 6 February 1977 and broadcast on West 3 on 8 March the same year.

Zero Hour (1977 film)

Plot summary

Cast

Kai Taschner as Joschi

Anette Jünger as Isa

Herbert Weißbach as Mattiske

Klaus Dierig as Paul

Günter Schiemann as Franke

Erika Wackernagel as Mrs. Unterstab

Torsten Henties as boy with a bike

Erich Kleiber as Motek

Bernd Linzel as Karl-Heinz

Edith Kunze as Joschi's mother

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1977 films

1970s war drama films

German war drama films

West German films

1970s German-language films

Films directed by Edgar Reitz

Films about Nazi Germany

German World War II films

Films set in 1945

Films set in Leipzig

Grimme-Preis for fiction winners

1977 drama films

1970s German films

Zero Hour (1977 film)