Directed by:
Sonja HeissCinematography:
Manuel DacosseComposer:
Dickon HinchliffeCast:
Arsseni Bultmann, Devid Striesow, Laura Tonke, Leslie Murphy, Pola Geiger, Axel Milberg, Camille Moltzen, Marc Philipps, Giuseppe Bonvissuto, Nikolai Will (more)Plots(1)
The household Josse grows up in hardly corresponds to the typical notions of family: his father is the director of a psychiatric clinic, on the premises of which their family home is located. Josse spends his childhood and adolescence with two brothers and liberal parents whose bourgeois life is threatening to break up their marriage. Again and again, Josse is plagued by fits of anger and sadness. He finds a sympathetic ear, consolation and the feeling of not being an oddball primarily among the psychiatric patients. The adaptation of Joachim Meyerhoff’s bestseller is carried by a well-known cast and tells a tragicomic tale about growing up in the 1970s. A soulful celebration of life in all its absurdity and transience. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Arsseni Bultmann
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Devid Striesow
East Germany
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Laura Tonke
West Germany
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Leslie Murphy
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Pola Geiger
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Axel Milberg
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Camille Moltzen
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Marc Philipps
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Giuseppe Bonvissuto
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Nikolai Will
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Tyler Matteo
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Andreas Merker
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Claude Albert Heinrich
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Merlin Rose
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Anne Müller
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Leo Meier
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