Asphaltflimmern

Asphaltflimmern

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Asphaltflimmern

1996

1h 21m

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Drama

Overview

They broke into cars, fled from the police, and skipped out on their bills—and that's how two boys became accomplices, soon joined by a third outsider. The involuntary community of this unlikely trio on the run through eastern Germany develops into a road movie about dreams and desires.

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16 members

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Thorsten Schätz

Micka

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Oda Pretschner

Philippa

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Utz Krause

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Waltraut Borchmann

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Bodo Schielicke

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Gerhard Hartig

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Gerhard Hartig

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Margarete Hebendanz

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Robert Stalinski

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Fati Sengül

Gena

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Sergelj Gritsal

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Jens Welsser

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David Kyungu

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Udo Molkentin

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Druc Eldes

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Robert Rockstroh

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Heinz Grave

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