Film

Icarus

1975 · 1h 31m · Family · Drama

IMDb

7.7

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias' father doesn't come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn't plummet to the earth because he didn't listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.

Peter Welz

Mathias

Karin Gregorek

Mutter

Peter Aust

Vater

Hermann Beyer

Onkel Jochen

Günter Junghans

Kriminalpolizist

Rolf Hoppe

Brigadier

Heidemarie Wenzel

Erika Sandke

Günter Schubert

Volkspolizist

Fred Delmare

Nachbar

Carl Heinz Choynski

Dieb

Willi Schrade

Vaters Kollege

Ursula Staack

Lehrerin

Jarmila Karlovská

Frank-Otto Schenk

• Heiner CarowDirector · Writer
• Klaus SchlesingerWriter
• Evelyn CarowEditor

Release date

September 3, 1975

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Family, Drama