Raw Materials

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Raw Materials

2024

1h 26m

5.3(4 votes)

Drama

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A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.

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12 members

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Angjela Prenci

Irsa

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Peter Schneider

Lutz

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Michael Kranz

Massenbach

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Kasem Hoxha

Boris

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Janina Elkin

Nadja Perlbauer

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Beat Marti

Robert Perlbauer

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Heinrich Horwitz

Alex

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Gonca de Haas

Nesstor

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Sebastian Gerold

Endri

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Anna Sophie Schindler

Vanessa

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Samantha Fowler

Faiza

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Thorsten Danner

Freier

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