Overview
Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies. But everything changes after the appearance of a traveling showman in the xenophobic village.
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Hans Jürgen Wenzel
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Peter Ziesche
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Siegfried KühnWriter
- Original title
- Kindheit
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 25, 1987
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- East Germany, Germany
Production
Cast
Carmen-Maja AntoniGroßmutter- Marc PoserAlfons, 9 Jahre
- Fritz MarquardtNardini
- Helmut Müller-LankowGroßvater
Martina Eitner-AcheampongTante Mieke
Renate UskoMagd Katrin
Heide KippCielchen
Günter JunghansRiedel
Hermann BeyerSchräter- Waldemar BaegerPoatty-Hempel
Angelika Böttiger
Andrzej Pieczyński- Klaus Bieligk
Carl Heinz Choynski
Werner DisselLehrer- Peter Kalisch
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