Charly — The Inheritors Character Profile

About Charly

One of the two 16-year-old protagonists. Co-joins the NEP and the 'Jugendschutz' group with Thomas. His sister's rape by their father leads to the final violent confrontation at a pub.

Character Facts

Played by

Roger Schauer

Appears in

The Inheritors (1983)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (5)

• Charly — mother — Charly's mother (Johanna Tomek)
• Charly — father — Charly's father (Frank Dietrich)
• Charly — Conflict Killer & Victim — Thomas Feigl (Nikolas Vogel)

  Perpetrator and target in a fatal retaliatory shooting.

• Charly — Family Father & Daughter — Charly (Roger Schauer)

  Parent-child bond corrupted by sexual violence and trauma.

• Charly — Social Friends — Thomas Feigl (Nikolas Vogel)

  Close companions navigating shared familial trauma and political radicalization.

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• Thomas Feigl (Nikolas Vogel)
• Dr. Norbert Fürst, NEP Party Leader (Wolfgang Gasser)
• Lehrer (Kurt Jaggberg)
• Charly's mother (Johanna Tomek)
• Kriegsveteran (Rudi Schippel)
• Günther (Michael Janisch)
• Journalist (Gerhard Swoboda)
• Camp Instructor (John Ottwald)
• Thomas' mother (Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard)
• Thomas' father (Jaromír Borek)
• Schneider, Youth Leader (Edd Stavjanik)
• Charly's father (Frank Dietrich)