A Handful of Water
2020, German. Directed by Jakob Zapf.
Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot, Dune) stars as Konrad, an old man still mourning his wife's death, living alone in a large house with little but a tropical fish tank for company. Then he meets 12-year-old Thurba, a Yemeni refugee avoiding resettlement to Bulgaria, after she breaks into his basement in search of food. Her dream is to get to London to find her uncle, and Konrad has to decide whether to help her.
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- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Jakob ZapfDirector
- Jürgen ProchnowKonrad
- Milena PribakThurba
- Pegah FerydoniAmal
- Anja SchiffelIngrid
- Regine VergeenFrau Schulte
- Rainer EwerrienHerr Probst
- Anke SevenichPolizistin Dix
- Julian-Nico TzschentkePolizist Max
- Paul HofmannPolizist Schwitters
- Osama KhaledAhmad
- Mohammed AbdullahQusay
- Isabel BerghoutStewardess
Details
- Released
- 24 October 2020
- Original title
- Eine Handvoll Wasser
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Marcus Seibert, Ashu B.A., Jakob Zapf
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Who directed A Handful of Water?
A Handful of Water (2020) was directed by Jakob Zapf and stars Jürgen Prochnow, Milena Pribak, Pegah Ferydoni.