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Ikarus

6.5 91 mins Family   Drama   1975
DEFA  
Director(s): Heiner Carow

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias' father doesn't come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn't plummet to the earth because he didn't listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.

Casts of Ikarus

Peter Welz

as Mathias

Karin Gregorek

as Mutter

Peter Aust

as Vater

Hermann Beyer

as Onkel Jochen

Günter Junghans

as Kriminalpolizist

Rolf Hoppe

as Brigadier

Heidemarie Wenzel

as Erika Sandke

Günter Schubert

as Volkspolizist

Fred Delmare

as Nachbar

Willi Schrade

as Vaters Kollege

Ursula Staack

as Lehrerin

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