November Child

November Child — Plot

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s six-month-old daughter Inga behind. Inga grows up with her grandparents and thinks that her mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during one of his seminars. At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help. Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in search of Inga’s mother Anne...

• Release date
• November 20, 2008
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Christian Schwochow

November Child — Cast

Anna Maria Mühe Inga/Anne Ulrich Matthes Robert Christine Schorn Christa Kaden Hermann Beyer Heinrich Kaden Yevgeni Sitokhin Jurij

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Ilja Pletner Jurij Thorsten Merten Alexander Adrian Topol Alexander jung