Sources of Life

Directed by Oskar Roehler
2013    2h 54m
6.356%
This is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Robert's father Klaus 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 boy, who is raised by both sets of grandparents. While his father belongs to the 1960s generation that rebels against their fathers, he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
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Cast of Sources of Life
  • Jürgen VogelErich Freytag
  • Meret BeckerElisabeth Freytag
  • Moritz BleibtreuKlaus Freytag
  • Lavinia WilsonGisela Ellers
  • Kostja UllmannKlaus, jung
  • Sonja KirchbergerMarie Freytag
  • Thomas HeinzeMartin Ellers
  • Margarita BroichHildegard Ellers
  • Wilson Gonzalez OchsenknechtSchwarz
  • Rolf ZacherErwin
  • Heribert SasseLedig-Rowohlt
  • Steffen WinkHerr Werner
  • Erika MarozsánFrau Werner
  • Anton RattingerKleptocek
  • Karoline TeskaErika Ellers
  • Eva BayAnnika
  • Lisa SmitLaura
  • Michael RastMarcel Reich-Ranitzki
  • Markus BöttcherEnzensberger
  • Armin DillenbergerGrenzbeamter
  • Daniel DrewesKritiker
  • Thomas GoritzkiH.W. Richter
  • Anne Wallis de VriesRothaarige / Italien
  • Gregor BloébMann in Wien
  • Thomas KügelMayor
  • Patrick JoswigVerleger
  • Dietmar MössmerKomorek
  • Johannes RotterVerkäufer
  • Ulrich SchmissatHeimleiter

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