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
Oscar Brose
Julian 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
Magdalena Matz
Sophie Collien
Andreas Beck
Lehrer Stoitzner
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