Dec 25, 1988
105 min
Full-HD

Jonny Comes (1988)

Twelve year old Jonny lives in foster home. Suddenly the family of a local doctor decides to adopt him. But it's not so easy...

Category

Drama Family

Country

East Germany

Companies

Fernsehen der DDR DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Sebastian Hattop

Jonny

Petra Kelling

Johanna

Joachim Siebenschuh

Rolf

Benjamin Burkhardt

Sascha

Silke Natzke

Julia

Marius Schönefeld

Thomas

Benno Mieth

Manne

Susanne Saewert

Silke

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