The Child I Never Was
- Original title
- Ein leben lang kurze Hosen tragen (The Child I Never Was)
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 83 min.
- Country
Germany
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Kai S. Pieck. Book: Paul Moor
- Cast
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- Tobias Schenke
- Sebastian Urzendowsky
- Ulrike Bliefert
- Walter Gontermann
- Jürgen Christoph Kamcke
- Sebastian Rüger
- Stephan Szasz
- Roland Riebeling
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Thriller. Drama | Based on a true story. Serial Killers. Sexual Abuse. Crime. 1960s
- Synopsis
- Between 1962 and 1966, four schoolboys were abused, tortured and killed in Germany's Ruhr District. Their tormentor, Juergen Bartsch, was fifteen at the time of his first crime; nineteen when he was caught. His mesmerizing confession, which frames the re-enactment of his crimes and the circumstances through which they came about, forms the heart of this journey into the dark reaches of a troubled mind. Bartsch's cold and severe adoptive parents, his terror-filled years at a Catholic boarding school, the discovery of his sexual attraction to boys, his desperate longing to never have to grow up--these and other emotionally charged aspects of his life unfold before us, step by troubling step. Ultimately, however, it is the outward normality of his everyday life that underscores the horror of his deeds.
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