The Burning Snail

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.

Cast

Barbara Auer

as Sarah

Sebastian Koch

as Gerd

Maximilian Haas

as Peter

Tobias Nath

as Axel

Michael Huml

as Matthias

Wasja Stettner

as Christian

Jonas Kipp

as Detlev

Florian Stenschke

as Joachim

Christiane Quast

as Gitte

Klaus Lochthove

as PE teacher

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