This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
Directed by Oskar Roehler
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Cast
Jürgen Vogel
Erich Freytag
Meret Becker
Elisabeth Freytag
Moritz Bleibtreu
Klaus Freytag
Lavinia Wilson
Gisela Ellers
Kostja Ullmann
Klaus, jung
Sonja Kirchberger
Marie Freytag
Thomas Heinze
Martin Ellers
Margarita Broich
Hildegard Ellers
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Schwarz
Rolf Zacher
Erwin
Heribert Sasse
Ledig-Rowohlt
Steffen Wink
Herr Werner
Marozsán Erika
Frau Werner
Anton Rattinger
Kleptocek
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