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Sources of Life (2013)

ALL 02/14/2013 (de) Drama 174 Min
  • Release
    02/14/2013
  • Production
    X Filme Creative Pool, ARD Degeto, WDR, BR, NDR, MOOVIE the art of entertainment
  • Rotten tomato
    60.56%
  • Original title
    Quellen des Lebens
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Oskar Roehler

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Peter R. Adam

    Editor



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  1. Jürgen Vogel

    Erich Freytag

  2. Meret Becker

    Elisabeth Freytag

  3. Moritz Bleibtreu

    Klaus Freytag

  4. Lavinia Wilson

    Gisela Ellers

  5. Kostja Ullmann

    Klaus, jung

  6. Sonja Kirchberger

    Marie Freytag

  7. Thomas Heinze

    Martin Ellers

  8. Margarita Broich

    Hildegard Ellers

  9. Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht

    Schwarz

  10. Rolf Zacher

    Erwin

  11. Heribert Sasse

    Ledig-Rowohlt

  12. Steffen Wink

    Herr Werner

  13. Erika Marozsán

    Frau Werner

  14. Anton Rattinger

    Kleptocek

  15. Karoline Teska

    Erika Ellers

  16. Eva Bay

    Annika

  17. Lisa Smit

    Laura

  18. Michael Rast

    Marcel Reich-Ranitzki

  19. Markus Böttcher

    Enzensberger

  20. Armin Dillenberger

    Grenzbeamter

  21. Daniel Drewes

    Kritiker

  22. Thomas Goritzki

    H.W. Richter

  23. Anne Wallis de Vries

    Rothaarige / Italien

  24. Gregor Bloéb

    Mann in Wien

  25. Thomas Kügel

    Mayor

  26. Patrick Joswig

    Verleger

  27. Dietmar Mössmer

    Komorek

  28. Johannes Rotter

    Verkäufer

  29. Ulrich Schmissat

    Heimleiter

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 29 , Crews : 10

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Sources of Life (2013) 174 Min

ALL 02/14/2013 (de)
Drama
  • Release 02/14/2013
  • Production
    X Filme Creative Pool, ARD Degeto, WDR, BR, NDR, MOOVIE the art of entertainment
  • Original title Quellen des Lebens
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Oskar Roehler

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Peter R. Adam

    Editor

  4. Oliver Berben, Stefan Arndt

    Producer



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