Sources of Life

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

J Jürgen VogelErich Freytag M Meret BeckerElisabeth Freytag M Moritz BleibtreuKlaus Freytag L Lavinia WilsonGisela Ellers K Kostja UllmannKlaus, jung S Sonja KirchbergerMarie Freytag T Thomas HeinzeMartin Ellers M Margarita BroichHildegard Ellers W Wilson Gonzalez OchsenknechtSchwarz R Rolf ZacherErwin H Heribert SasseLedig-Rowohlt S Steffen WinkHerr Werner

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M Marozsán ErikaFrau Werner A Anton RattingerKleptocek K Karoline TeskaErika Ellers E Eva BayAnnika L Lisa SmitLaura M Michael RastMarcel Reich-Ranitzki M Markus BöttcherEnzensberger A Armin DillenbergerGrenzbeamter D Daniel DrewesKritiker T Thomas GoritzkiH.W. Richter A Anne Wallis de VriesRothaarige / Italien G Gregor BloébMann in Wien T Thomas KügelMayor P Patrick JoswigVerleger D Dietmar MössmerKomorek J Johannes RotterVerkäufer U Ulrich SchmissatHeimleiter B Bonnie StrangeBlondine