Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Directed by Marc Brummund

Produced by ARD

2015104 min7.2 / 10

A dark coming-of-age drama rooted in institutional trauma and family dysfunction, exploring a young boy's struggle for autonomy against oppressive systems.

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.

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