Young Light

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Charly HübnerWaller Collien

Oscar Brose

Oscar BroseJulian Collien

Peter LohmeyerKonrad Gorny

Nina PetriEdeltraud Gorny

Stephan KampwirthHerbert Lippek

Ludger PistorPfarrer Stürwald

Caroline PetersFrau Morian

Patrick JoswigOnkel Jupp

Greta Sophie SchmidtMarusha

Lina BeckmannLiesel Collien

Magdalena Matz

Magdalena MatzSophie Collien

Andreas Beck

Andreas BeckLehrer Stoitzner