Young Light

Junges Licht

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.

Director

Adolf Winkelmann

Screenplay

Nils Beckmann

Screenplay

Adolf Winkelmann

Screenplay

Till Beckmann

Status

Released

Release date

12/05/2016

Original language

German