Young Light
6.5
Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.
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Charly Hübner
Waller Collien
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Andreas Beck
Lehrer Stoitzner
Adolf Winkelmann Director · Till Beckmann Screenplay Nils Beckmann Screenplay
First release May 12, 2016 · Produced in Germany · Production FFP New Media, ZDF
Production
Adolf Winkelmann Filmproduktion
Production
FFP New Media
Production
ZDF
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Germany
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Original title
Junges Licht
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · May 12, 2016
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No release date listed for United States.
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