Never Look Away

Never Look Away

2018•3h 8m•7.7/10

DramaRomanceHistory

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.7/10(747)

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

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Production

Pergamon Film, Wiedemann & Berg Film, Beta Film, ARD Degeto, BR, Sky Deutschland, RAI Cinema, Sony Pictures Classics, ARTE, Buena Vista International

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Tom Schilling

Tom Schilling

Kurt Barnert

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Carl Seeband

Paula Beer

Paula Beer

Ellie

Saskia Rosendahl

Saskia Rosendahl

Elisabeth May

Oliver Masucci

Oliver Masucci

Antonius van Verten

Cai Cohrs

Six-Year-Old Kurt Barnert

Ina Weisse

Ina Weisse

Martha Seeband

Evgeniy Sidikhin

Evgeniy Sidikhin

Major Murawjow

Mark Zak

Mark Zak

Murawjow Interpreter

Ulrike C. Tscharre

Ulrike C. Tscharre

Miss Hellthaler

Bastian Trost

Bastian Trost

Franz Michaelis

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Horst Grimma

Hanno Koffler

Hanno Koffler

Günther Preusser

David Schütter

David Schütter

Adrian Schimmel / Finck

Franz Pätzold

Franz Pätzold

Max Seifert

Hinnerk Schönemann

Hinnerk Schönemann

Werner Blaschke

Jeanette Hain

Jeanette Hain

Waltraut Barnert

Jörg Schüttauf

Jörg Schüttauf

Johann Barnert

Johanna Gastdorf

Johanna Gastdorf

Grandmother Malvine

Florian Bartholomäi

Florian Bartholomäi

Günther May

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