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.


Sources of Life (2013)
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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
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