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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Jürgen VogelErich Freytag
Meret BeckerElisabeth Freytag
Moritz BleibtreuKlaus Freytag
Lavinia WilsonGisela Ellers
Kostja UllmannKlaus, jung
Sonja KirchbergerMarie Freytag
Thomas HeinzeMartin Ellers
Margarita BroichHildegard Ellers
Wilson Gonzalez OchsenknechtSchwarz
Rolf ZacherErwin
Heribert SasseLedig-Rowohlt
Steffen WinkHerr WernerExplore the crew
- Producer
- Oliver Berben
- Director of Photography
- Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
- Editor
- Peter R. Adam
- Producer
- Stefan Arndt
- Director
- Oskar Roehler
- Screenplay
- Klaus Richter
- Screenplay
- Oskar Roehler
- Original Music Composer
- Martin Todsharow