The Burning Snail

The Burning Snail

82 mins | Drama | May 28, 1996

In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.

The Burning Snail

82 mins | Drama | May 28, 1996

The Burning Snail
In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, MDR, Südwestfunk (SWF), Jost Hering Filmproduktion
Original title Die brennende Schnecke
Directors Nancy Rivas, Thomas Stiller
Writers Thomas Stiller

Cast

Barbara Auer

as Sarah

Sebastian Koch

as Gerd

Maximilian Haas

as Peter

Tobias Nath

as Axel

Michael Huml

as Matthias

Wasja Stettner

as Christian

Jonas Kipp

as Detlev

Florian Stenschke

as Joachim

Christiane Quast

as Gitte

Klaus Lochthove

as PE teacher

Helga Göring

as grandmother

Martha Nelle

as Geography teacher

Martina Reuter

as Cinema cashier

Peter Hommen

as Headmaster

Sebastian Essner

as class teacher