Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the Third Reich.
as Johann Hardekopf
as Pauline Hardekopf
as Ludwig Hardekopf
as Carl Brenten
as Frieda Brenten
as Gustav Stürck
as Frau Rüscher
as August Bebel
as Cecilie
as Tabakarbeiter
as Hinrich Wilmers
as Berner
