The Dead and the Living (2012)

4.6/10 111 min Drama

Overview

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.

Cast

Anna Fischer

Sita

August Zirner

Lenzi Weiss, Sitas Vater

Winfried Glatzeder

Michael Weiss

Wanja Mues

Gunther

Daniel Sea

Silver

Itay Tiran

Jocquin

Almut Zilcher

Marianne, Sitas Mutter

Emily Cox

Agnes, junge Frau in Auschwitz

Kristina Bangert

Gerda Weiss, Lenzis Frau

Karl Alexander Seidel

Raimund

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