We Are Young. We Are Strong.

Oct 21, 2014

2h 3m

★ 6.8

Overview

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women, and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol of xenophobia in the just-reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

UFA Cinema

UFA Fiction

ARTE

Cine Plus Filmproduktion

ZDF

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Cast

Martin

Devid Striesow

Stefan

Jonas Nay

Lien

Trang Le Hong

Robbie

Joel Basman

Jennie

Saskia Rosendahl

Thorsten Merten

Paul Gäbler

David Schütter

Jakob Bieber

Ramona

Gro Swantje Kohlhof

Thao

Mai Duong Kieu

Kathrin

Larissa Fuchs

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

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