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.
as Erich Freytag
as Elisabeth Freytag
as Klaus Freytag
as Gisela Ellers
as Klaus, jung
as Marie Freytag
as Martin Ellers
as Hildegard Ellers
as Schwarz
as Erwin
as Ledig-Rowohlt
as Herr Werner
as Frau Werner
as Kleptocek
as Erika Ellers
as Annika
as Laura
as Marcel Reich-Ranitzki
as Enzensberger
as Grenzbeamter
as Kritiker
as H.W. Richter
as Rothaarige / Italien
as Mann in Wien
as Mayor
as Verleger
as Komorek
as Verkäufer
as Heimleiter
as Blondine
