Child's Play

Child's Play

1993•1h 51m•5.3/10

DramaTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.3/10(7)

When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...

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Production

ZDF, FFG Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jonas Kipp

Micha

Oliver Bröcker

Oliver Bröcker

Kalli

Burghart Klaußner

Burghart Klaußner

Micha's Father

Angelika Bartsch

Angelika Bartsch

Micha's Mother

Matthias Friedrich

Peter

Hildegard Wensch

Micha's Grandmother

Irina Lackmann

Rita

Rüdiger Joswig

Rüdiger Joswig

Michele Sterr

Antonio Wannek

Antonio Wannek

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Brigitte Janner

Brigitte Janner

Nadine Grenz

Evelyn Meyka

Michael Stutz

Jürgen Vogel

Jürgen Vogel

Detlev Buck

Detlev Buck

Bert Pesalla

Johanna Karl-Lory

(uncredited)

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