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.
Cast
- Charly Hübner as Waller Collien
- Oscar Brose as Julian Collien
- Peter Lohmeyer as Konrad Gorny
- Nina Petri as Edeltraud Gorny
- Stephan Kampwirth as Herbert Lippek
- Ludger Pistor as Pfarrer Stürwald
- Caroline Peters as Frau Morian
- Patrick Joswig as Onkel Jupp
- Greta Sophie Schmidt as Marusha
- Lina Beckmann as Liesel Collien