The Burning Snail

The Burning Snail

Die brennende Schnecke
🎞️ Movie 82 min DE
โ˜… 6.2 /10 1996

The film's action centres on the 14-year-old Peter who lives alone with his mother. Peter, who is currently in the difficult phase of self-discovery, has focused all his longings on his mother. Her own unsatisfied longings mean that she is incapable of reacting accordingly to the needs of her child. Instead, she puts up a barrier without even being aware that she's doing it. Peter makes contact with a radical youth gang in his class. They are all children from the upper class. Peter's attention is directed to Axel, the gang leader, who similarly treats him as coldly as Peter's mother does. His mother becomes acquainted with a young man and, for a while, it looks as if this man has appeared in Peter's life at just the right time to help him in his self-discovery. The mother's longings are so great, though, that she takes up all of the man's time for herself and ignores Peter even more. Peter gets increasingly involved in the brutal activities of his gang and lets himself be manoeuvred into a dangerous rival position by the gang leader. Slowly but surely, Peter slips away from reality and heads for a fateful conclusion.

Cast

Barbara Auer
Barbara Auer
Sarah
Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch
Gerd
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Maximilian Haas
Peter
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Tobias Nath
Axel
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Michael Huml
Matthias
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Wasja Stettner
Christian
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Jonas Kipp
Detlev
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Florian Stenschke
Joachim
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Christiane Quast
Gitte
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Klaus Lochthove
Sportlehrer
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Stefan Rager
Composer
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Lars von Mars
Composer
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Frank Griebe
Cinematographer