174 minutos
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.
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
Erika Marozsán
Frau Werner
Anton Rattinger
Kleptocek
Karoline Teska
Erika Ellers
Eva Bay
Annika
Lisa Smit
Laura
Michael Rast
Marcel Reich-Ranitzki
Markus Böttcher
Enzensberger
Armin Dillenberger
Grenzbeamter
Daniel Drewes
Kritiker
Thomas Goritzki
H.W. Richter
Gregor Bloéb
Mann in Wien
Thomas Kügel
Mayor
Patrick Joswig
Verleger
Dietmar Mössmer
Komorek
Johannes Rotter
Verkäufer
Ulrich Schmissat
Heimleiter
Anne Wallis de Vries
