Frost
1997 · 201 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape
Directed by Fred Kelemen · Written by Fred Kelemen
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Isolde Barth Frau, die Obdach gewährt -
Adolfo Assor Nachtportier -
Harry Baer Mann, der Obdach gewährt - T Thomas Baumann Besitzer der Tanzbar
- P Paul Blumberg Micha
- M Mario Gericke The Father
- A Anna Schmidt Marianne
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