Overview
Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the Third Reich.
Cast
- Gerhard Bienert as Johann Hardekopf
- Ursula Braun as Pauline Hardekopf
- Christian Balhaus as Ludwig Hardekopf
- Roland Knappe as Carl Brenten
- Gudrun Wendler as Frieda Brenten
- Herbert Köfer as Gustav Stürck
- Christel Peters as Frau Rüscher
- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as August Bebel
- Renate Blume as Cecilie
- Frank Michelis as Tabakarbeiter