Wanja
- Director: Carolina Hellsgård
- Writer: Carolina Hellsgård
- Producer: Johanna Aust; Kathrin Krottenthaler
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The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.
Trailer...
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Cast & Characters
Anne Ratte-Polle as Wanja;
Nele Trebs as Emma;
Robert Viktor Minich as Rudi;
Marko Dyrlich as Ulf;
Michael Baderschneider as Otto;
Mehmet Yilmaz as Nicolas;
Jan Bulow as Kevin;
Tim Blochwitz as Robbe;
Hauke Petersen as Dennis;
Zita Aretz as Annelie;
Joachim Schoenfeld as Social Worker;
Florian Anderer as Employee at Job Center;
Rike Eckermann as Gudrun Romer;
Cornelius Schwalm as Robber;
Laura Kiehne as Nurse