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.
Oscar Brose | Julian Collien |
Charly Hübner | Walter Collien |
Peter Lohmeyer | Herr Gorny |
Nina Petri | Frau 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 |