Austria / West Germany,
1986, 118 min
Directed by:
Axel CortiCinematography:
Otto KirchhoffCast:
Gabriel Barylli, Monica Bleibtreu, Johannes Silberschneider, Ernst Stankovski, Judith Drake, Karin Kienzer, Gideon Singer, Doris Buchrucker, Dagmar Schwarz (more)Plots(1)
New York, 1940. The Tonka docks filled with exhausted refugees. Among them is Ferry Tobler, a young Austrian teenager who boarded the ship atMarseilles. During the trip hemade friends with FreddyWolff, a young Jewish compatriot. The two young boys dreamof leading a normal life, but their origins and social status set them against this country which had seemed like a new El Dorado. (Festival International du Film de La Rochelle)
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