Never Look Away
A sweeping historical drama about an artist haunted by totalitarian trauma, tracing how personal and political violence shape creative vision across decades.
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Essence
Ensemble
Tom Schilling
Kurt Barnert
Sebastian Koch
Carl Seeband
Paula Beer
Ellie
Saskia Rosendahl
Elisabeth May
Oliver Masucci
Antonius van Verten
Cai Cohrs
Six-Year-Old Kurt Barnert
Ina Weisse
Martha Seeband
Evgeniy Sidikhin
Major Murawjow
Mark Zak
Murawjow Interpreter
Ulrike C. Tscharre
Miss Hellthaler
Bastian Trost
Franz Michaelis
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Horst Grimma
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