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Child's Play
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Child's Play

Sep 13, 1993
1h 51m
★ 5.3

Overview

When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...

Genres

Drama
TV Movie

Production Companies

ZDF
FFG Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft

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Cast

Jonas Kipp

Micha

Jonas Kipp

Oliver Bröcker

Kalli

Oliver Bröcker

Burghart Klaußner

Micha's Father

Burghart Klaußner

Angelika Bartsch

Micha's Mother

Angelika Bartsch

Matthias Friedrich

Peter

Matthias Friedrich

Hildegard Wensch

Micha's Grandmother

Hildegard Wensch

Irina Lackmann

Rita

Irina Lackmann

Rüdiger Joswig

Rüdiger Joswig

Michele Sterr

Michele Sterr

Antonio Wannek

Antonio Wannek

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Brigitte Janner

Brigitte Janner