This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...
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Cast
Veronica Ferres
Bertha Baetz
Thando Walbaum
Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi
Petra Kelling
Elisabeth Möller
Götz Schubert
Franz Wahl
Charly Hübner
Polizist Reesen
Adrian Topol
Ernst Kröger
Tim Wilde
Boxtrainer Rudi
Frederick Lau
Fiete Petersen
Jan Niklas Berg
Fritz Goldstein
Arved Birnbaum
Chef der Musterung
Rosalind Baffoe
Rachel Massaquoi
Dörte Lyssewski
Schwester Else
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