Sources of Life (2013)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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