
Full Metal Jacket(1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.


A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?
Nikolas Vogel
Thomas Feigl
Wolfgang Gasser
Dr. Norbert Fürst, NEP Party Leader

Kurt Jaggberg
Lehrer

Alexander Wussow
Rudi Schippel
Kriegsveteran
Roger Schauer
Charly
Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard
Thomas' mother
Jaromír Borek
Thomas' father
Edd Stavjanik
Schneider, Youth Leader
Frank Dietrich
Charly's father
The Inheritors is a drama, action, war film released in 1983 exploring themes of army, fascism, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), recruit, nazi officer, youth gang. Directed by Walter Bannert, it stars Nikolas Vogel, Wolfgang Gasser, Kurt Jaggberg. A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?
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