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Laslo Benedek interrupted his thriving Hollywood career to return to Europe as director of the German Kinder, Mutter und ein General (Children, Mother and the General). The film is set in Berlin during the last days of WW II. Desperate for manpower, Hitler has ordered that all able-bodied teenaged boys --some as young as 15 -- be drafted into the army. Frau Asmussen (Hilde Krahl) is one of five mothers who learn to their horror that their boys have been slated to be cannon fodder on behalf of the Third Reich. Asmussen and the other mothers head directly to the front to plead with the German generals for the lives of their sons. Not directly an indictment of Germany's involvement in (or incitement of) the recent war, Kinder, Mutter und ein General stresses the futility and heartbreak of all wars everywhere. Read More

Watch Children, Mother, and the General online. Featuring Hilde Krahl and Ewald Balser, Children, Mother, and the General is classified as War and Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in Germany and was released on 1955. Children, Mother, and the General was directed by László Benedek,Rainer Geis,John Hoffmann. Read Less