Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger
6.8 / 10
180 minutes
2006-10-01
German
DE
Actors :
Veronica Ferres, Thando Walbaum, Petra Kelling, Götz Schubert, Charly Hübner, Adrian Topol, Tim Wilde, Frederick Lau, Jan Niklas Berg, Arved Birnbaum, Rosalind Baffoe, Dörte Lyssewski, Falk Rockstroh, Michael Schönborn, Jürgen Tarrach
Description
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...