Movie: The Burning Snail

Top 10 Billed Cast

Barbara Auer
Barbara Auer

Sarah

Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch

Gerd

Maximilian Haas
Maximilian Haas

Peter

Tobias Nath
Tobias Nath

Axel

Michael Huml
Michael Huml

Matthias

Wasja Stettner
Wasja Stettner

Christian

Jonas Kipp
Jonas Kipp

Detlev

Florian Stenschke
Florian Stenschke

Joachim

Christiane Quast
Christiane Quast

Gitte

Klaus Lochthove
Klaus Lochthove

PE teacher

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    In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.

  • Release Date

    1996-05-28

  • Average

    6.8

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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  • Languages:

    Deutsch
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