When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
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Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...
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Edited by Julia KargShot by Manuel DacosseScored by Dickon HinchliffeDesigned by Josh Plaw
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- Quando tutto tornerà come non è mai statoit
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22 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Arsseni Bultmann
as Joachim Meyerhoff, 14
Laura Tonke
as Iris Meyerhoff
Devid Striesow
as Richard Meyerhoff
Pola Geiger
as Marlene, 14
Camille Moltzen
as Joachim Meyerhoff, 7
Casper Von Bulow
as Philipp Meyerhoff, 18
Merlin Rose
as Joachim Meyerhoff, 25
Axel Milberg
as Governor
Sarah Bauerett
as Frau Ehlers
Esther Bechtold
as Spinnenmädchen
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