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Sanctuary

Country: Germany, Language: German, 104 mins

Original Title

Freistatt
  • Director: Marc Brummund
  • Writer: Nicole Armbruster; Marc Brummund
  • Producer: Stefanie Groß; Monika Kintner

CGiii Comment

May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?


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Cast & Characters

Jonas Berg as Jurgen;
Louis Hofmann as Wolfgang Rosenkotter;
Alexander Held as Hausvater Brockmann;
Stephan Grossmann as Bruder Wilde;
Katharina Lorenz as Ingrid;
Max Riemelt as Bruder Krapp;
Uwe Bohm as Heinz;
Enno Trebs as Bernd;
Langston Uibel as Anton;
Anna Bullard as Angelika Brockmann;
Justus Rosenkranz as Mattis;
Ole Joensson as Hans;
Megan Gay as Frau vom Jugendamt;
Anouk Bodeker as Sabine;
Leonard Boes as Burkhart