Lars

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0h 18m

★ 10.0

Overview

East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner, Lars struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.

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Cast

Lars Weber

Heiko Obermöller

Rudolf Schulz

Thomas Mikusz

Rosi Weber

Annette Remter

Gerald Weber

Christopher Karl Johnson

Edel Schulz

Claudia Loelke

Father Herbert Müller

James Loren

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