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Frost
Frost

Frost

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Drama

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Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Runtime

201 mins

Rating

6.4/10

Release Date

21 February 1997

Country

Germany

Cast

Isolde Barth

Isolde Barth

Frau, die Obdach gewährt

Adolfo Assor

Adolfo Assor

Nachtportier

Harry Baer

Harry Baer

Mann, der Obdach gewährt

Thomas Baumann

Thomas Baumann

Besitzer der Tanzbar

Paul Blumberg

Paul Blumberg

Micha

Mario Gericke

Mario Gericke

The Father

Anna Schmidt

Anna Schmidt

Marianne

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