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The Green Desert(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-11-23
72%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
No matter what happens I'll be with you.
Overview:
Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.
Languages: German.
Countries:
Germany
ProductionCompanies: 
Trebitsch Produktion International GmbH
Movie: The Green Desert
Top 10 Billed Cast
Martina Gedeck
Doris
Ulrich Noethen
Detlef
Heino Ferch
Simon
Corinna Harfouch
Krankenschwester
Robert Gwisdek
Johann
Karin Gregorek
Lehrerin
Tatjana Trieb
Katja
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Overview
Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.
Release Date
1999-11-23
Average
7.2
Rating:
3.6 startsTagline
No matter what happens I'll be with you.
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