IMDb
8.1 /10
163 votes


Drama · 1997 · 3h 21min
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape
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IMDb
8.1 /10
163 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
29 /100
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TMDB
5.9 /10
10 votes
Letterboxd
7.6 /10
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Weighted average
6.1/10