Young Light

2h 2min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

Adolf Winkelmann Filmproduktion

FFP New Media

ZDF

Cast

Charly Hübner

Charly Hübner

Waller Collien
Oscar Brose

Oscar Brose

Julian Collien
Peter Lohmeyer

Peter Lohmeyer

Konrad Gorny
Nina Petri

Nina Petri

Edeltraud Gorny
Stephan Kampwirth

Stephan Kampwirth

Herbert Lippek
Ludger Pistor

Ludger Pistor

Pfarrer Stürwald
Caroline Peters

Caroline Peters

Frau Morian
Patrick Joswig

Patrick Joswig

Onkel Jupp
Lina Beckmann

Lina Beckmann

Liesel Collien
Magdalena Matz

Magdalena Matz

Sophie Collien
Andreas Beck

Andreas Beck

Lehrer Stoitzner
Henk Buchholz

Henk Buchholz

Karl Maronde

Release date

12th May 2016

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch