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Before the Fall
(2004)
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Before the Fall
(2004)
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| Max Riemelt | ... | ||
| Tom Schilling | ... | ||
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Jonas Jägermeyr | ... |
Christoph Schneider
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Leon A. Kersten | ... |
Tjaden
(as Leon Alexander Kersten)
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Thomas Drechsel | ... | |
| Martin Goeres | ... | ||
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Florian Stetter | ... | |
| Devid Striesow | ... | ||
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Joachim Bißmeier | ... | |
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Michael Schenk | ... |
Sportlehrer
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Justus von Dohnányi | ... |
Gauleiter Heinrich Stein
(as Justus von Dohnàny and Justus von Dohnányi)
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| Claudia Michelsen | ... |
Frau Stein
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Julie Engelbrecht | ... |
Katharina
(as Julie Marie Engelbrecht)
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Johannes Zirner | ... |
Torben Send
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Gerald Alexander Held | ... |
Friedrichs Vater
(as Alexander Held)
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In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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