We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)

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

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.

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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)

Trailer

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