Young Light

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.

Directed by Adolf Winkelmann

Top cast

Charly Hübner

Waller Collien

O

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

M

Magdalena Matz

Sophie Collien

A

Andreas Beck

Lehrer Stoitzner

Linus Schütz

Jonny

H

Henk Buchholz

Karl Maronde

A

Andreas Rother

Der Dicke

F

Franziska Mense-Moritz

Frau Kalde

T

Till Beckmann

Kumpel

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