Overview

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

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Cast

Charly Hübner

Waller Collien

Peter Lohmeyer

Konrad Gorny

Nina Petri

Edeltraud Gorny

Stephan Kampwirth

Herbert Lippek

Ludger Pistor

Pfarrer Stürwald

Caroline Peters

Frau Morian

Patrick Joswig

Onkel Jupp

Greta Sophie Schmidt

Marusha

Lina Beckmann

Liesel Collien

Linus Schütz

Jonny