Cascade Backwards

Feb 10, 1984

1h 30m

★ 3.5

Overview

Maja Wegner is in her late thirties and a single mother of a teenage daughter. To give her stale life a new direction, she decides to start all over again in the big city. She sells her house in the countryside, quits her job, and moves with her daughter to Berlin. There, she finds a job as a conductor for the railroad company. Although Maja soon finds new friends in her apartment building, the search for a new life partner does not come off so easily.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Cascade Backwards Trailers

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Cast

Maja Wegner

Marion Wiegmann

Carola Brehme

Johanna Schall

Gerd „K“

Siegfried Höchst

Toni

Jaecki Schwarz

Sylvi

Swetlana Schönfeld

Ali

Achim Wolff

Wilfried

Bernd Michael Lade

Bardame

Regine Albrecht

Brettschneider

Hilmar Baumann

Dienstreisender

Eckhard Becker

Dr. Mann

Hermann Beyer

Bärtiger Student

André Hennicke

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