
28/12/1980
Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the rise to power of the Nazis, the war, the collapse and the hesitant new beginning, his firmly established middle-class world is also thrown off course. His father is one of the first to be called up to the front. His mother is left alone with the responsibility for Ralph and his younger brother Achim. In the air-raid shelter, during the nights of bombing and later in the daily struggle against misery and hunger, the mother quickly abandons all moral baggage and develops a pragmatic will to survive, for which she admires Ralph. At the same time, the boy is frightened by his mother's desperate claim to happiness because he perceives her affairs as a betrayal of his father, who has gradually faded into a symbol of a happy, carefree childhood.

Monika Woytowicz
as Gerti Donath

Arno Wyzniewski
as

Rene Kalaene
as

Ruth Kommerell
as

Walter Lendrich
as

Susanne Krahnert
as

Carmen-Maja Antoni
as Tante Helli

Sylvester Groth
as Janker

Rolf Hoppe
as Lehrer Kirsche

Erdmute Schmidt-Christian
as Tante Lotte

Hanns-Jörn Weber
as

Michael Christian
as

Wilfried Pucher
as

Hannes Fischer
as

Hans-Peter Reinecke
as

Elke Reuter
as

Blanche Kommerell
as

Till Kretzschmar
as

Sonja Deutsch
as

Gerry Wolff
as

Frank-Otto Schenk
as

Waltraut Kramm
as Darja

Gisbert-Peter Terhorst
as

Ulrich Teschner
as

Günter Drescher
as

Ilka Hügel
as

Martin Trettau
as

Roman-Eckhard Galonska
as

Robert Wittmers
as

Anita Herbst
as

Gertraud Last
as

Theresia Wider
as

Hans Klering
as
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