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Sources of Life

Country: Germany, Language: German, 174 mins

Original Title

Quellen des Lebens
  • Director: Oskar Roehler
  • Writer: Oskar Roehler; Klaus Richter
  • Producer: Stefan Arndt; Oliver Berben

CGiii Comment

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.


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Cast & Characters

Jurgen Vogel as Erich Freytag;
Meret Becker as Elisabeth Freytag;
Moritz Bleibtreu as Klaus Freytag;
Lavinia Wilson as Gisela Ellers;
Lisa Smit as Laura Werner;
Leonard Scheicher as Robert Freytag;
Sonja Kirchberger as Marie Freytag;
Margarita Broich as Hildegard Ellers;
Ilyes Moutaoukkil as Robert Freytag als Kind;
Alexandros Gehrckens as Robert Freytag als Kind