The Prize

Oct 26, 2012

1h 26m

★ 9.0

Overview

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rural Eastern Germany where he grew up and where people remember him as Alex from the Free German Youth, a pro-GDR youth organization.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Schiwago Film

SWR

The Prize Trailers

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Cast

Alexander Beck

Florian Panzner

Alexander Beck-jung

Sven Gielnik

Nicole

Anne Kanis

Michael (jung)

Vincent Krüger

Nicola (jung)

Vanessa Krüger

Manfred Lange

Guntbert Warns

Jeanette

Wiebke Bachmann

Jeanette (jung)

Anna Willecke

Udo

Christian Näthe

Udo (jung)

Marcel Lucht

Gerd

Robert Gallinowski

Wocke (jung)

Timon Wloka

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