21 Apr 1995
The Basketball Diaries
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.
Top Billed Cast
Manja Behrens Martha Kurda
Raimund Schelcher Karl Baumann
Siegfried Schürenberg Polizeiinspektor
Liselott Baumgarten Reisende
Barbara Bertram Blumenmädchen
Annemarie Hase Mutter Bühnemann
Friedrich Gnaß Vater Baumann
Günther Ballier Arzt
Ludwig Sachs Gerichtsarzt
Wolf von Beneckendorff Adolf Peter Hoffmann Frank Michelis 
Paul Pfingst 
Gustav Püttjer 
Werner Senftleben 
Traute Sense Otto Stübler Karl-Heinz Weiss Siegfried Weiß 
Johannes Wieke
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