Overview
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.
Cast
- Henning Harmssen as Robert Fähmel
- Georg Zander as Hugo
- Ulrich Hopmann as Young Robert Fähmel
- Ernst Kutzinski as Young Schrella
- Jochem Grüner
- Günter Göbel
- Klaus Weyer
- Karl Bodenschatz
- Heinrich Hargesheimer as Old Heinrich Fähmel
- Johannes Buzalski