The Cloud, is a 2006 German science fiction thriller drama film based on the 1987 novel Die Wolke by Gudrun Pausewang.
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Die Wolke is a German novel for young adults by German author Gudrun Pausewang, published in 1987. The story was written after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, with a 14-year-old girl having to deal with the consequences of a fictional similar disaster in Germany. It was translated into English by Patricia Crampton, published in 1997, as Fall-Out. Die Wolke, which received several awards, became a popular book for reading in class and was adapted for film and stage, has been regarded as Pausewang's signature work.
Gudrun Pausewang with Katarina Barley, then Minister of Family Affairs, at the 2017 ceremony Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis