
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.
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Jürgen Vogel as Erich Freytag

Meret Becker as Elisabeth Freytag

Moritz Bleibtreu as Klaus Freytag

Lavinia Wilson as Gisela Ellers

Kostja Ullmann as Klaus, jung

Sonja Kirchberger as Marie Freytag

Thomas Heinze as Martin Ellers

Margarita Broich as Hildegard Ellers

Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht as Schwarz

Rolf Zacher as Erwin

Heribert Sasse as Ledig-Rowohlt

Steffen Wink as Herr Werner

Erika Marozsán as Frau Werner

Anton Rattinger as Kleptocek

Karoline Teska as Erika Ellers

Eva Bay as Annika

Lisa Smit as Laura

Michael Rast as Marcel Reich-Ranitzki

Markus Böttcher as Enzensberger

Armin Dillenberger as Grenzbeamter

Daniel Drewes as Kritiker

Thomas Goritzki as H.W. Richter

Anne Wallis de Vries as Rothaarige / Italien

Gregor Bloéb as Mann in Wien

Thomas Kügel as Mayor

Patrick Joswig as Verleger

Dietmar Mössmer as Komorek

Johannes Rotter as Verkäufer

Ulrich Schmissat as Heimleiter
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