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Cascade Backwards(1984)
Status: Released
Date: 1984-02-10
35%
6 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
Maja Wegner is in her late thirties and a single mother of a teenage daughter. To give her stale life a new direction, she decides to start all over again in the big city. She sells her house in the countryside, quits her job, and moves with her daughter to Berlin. There, she finds a job as a conductor for the railroad company. Although Maja soon finds new friends in her apartment building, the search for a new life partner does not come off so easily.
Languages: German.
Countries:
East Germany,
Germany
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Cascade Backwards
Top 10 Billed Cast
Johanna Schall
Carola Brehme
Siegfried Höchst
Gerd „K“
Jaecki Schwarz
Toni
Swetlana Schönfeld
Sylvi
Achim Wolff
Ali
Bernd Michael Lade
Wilfried
Hilmar Baumann
Brettschneider
Eckhard Becker
Dienstreisender
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Overview
Maja Wegner is in her late thirties and a single mother of a teenage daughter. To give her stale life a new direction, she decides to start all over again in the big city. She sells her house in the countryside, quits her job, and moves with her daughter to Berlin. There, she finds a job as a conductor for the railroad company. Although Maja soon finds new friends in her apartment building, the search for a new life partner does not come off so easily.
Release Date
1984-02-10
Average
3.5
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