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.

Young Light (2016)
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Charly Hübner
Waller Collien
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Oscar Brose
Julian Collien

Peter Lohmeyer
Konrad Gorny

Nina Petri
Edeltraud Gorny

Stephan Kampwirth
Herbert Lippek

Ludger Pistor
Pfarrer Stürwald

Caroline Peters
Frau Morian

Patrick Joswig
Onkel Jupp

Greta Sophie Schmidt
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