Underplayed Gems

We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)

We Are Young. We Are Strong. poster
Original title
Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark.
Directed by
Burhan Qurbani
Genre
drama film, crime film, historical film
Country
Germany
Runtime
2h 03m
Rated
12
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 77 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

Three teenagers in Rostock, Germany get caught up in a wave of anti-immigrant violence during the summer of 1992. The film follows their perspectives as xenophobic riots erupt around them.

bleaktensegrittyatmosphericmelancholicrawclaustrophobicgrounded

What happens

We Are Young. We Are Strong (German: Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark) is a 2014 German drama film directed by Burhan Qurbani, a fictionalized account of the 1992 xenophobic Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots. It was one of eight films shortlisted by Germany to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it lost out to Labyrinth of Lies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.