A Year Ago in Winter (2008)

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Karoline Herfurth with Josef Bierbichler in “A Year Ago in Winter,” by Caroline Link.
Death of a Golden Boy Ripples Through a Family
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: January 6, 2010

Late in Caroline Link’s film “A Year Ago in Winter,” the bottled-up anguish of the Richters, a well-to-do family in Munich whose 19-year-old son and golden boy, Alexander (Cyril Sjostrom), shot himself to death, is conjured by a turbulent Peter Gabriel song, “Signal to Noise,” heard on the soundtrack. More