Young Light

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Adolf Winkelmann

Writers

Ralf Rothmann, Nils Beckmann, Till Beckmann

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

12 May 2016

Ensemble

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