November Child

Nov 20, 2008

1h 35m

★ 5.4

Overview

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s six-month-old daughter Inga behind. Inga grows up with her grandparents and thinks that her mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during one of his seminars. At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help. Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in search of Inga’s mother Anne...

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

ARD

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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Cast

Inga/Anne

Anna Maria Mühe

Robert

Ulrich Matthes

Christa Kaden

Christine Schorn

Heinrich Kaden

Hermann Beyer

Jurij

Yevgeni Sitokhin

Jurij

Ilja Pletner

Alexander

Thorsten Merten

Alexander jung

Adrian Topol

Steffi

Christina Drechsler

Kerstin

Steffi Kühnert

Claire

Juliane Köhler

Nicole Ernst

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