
228 minutes
10/16/1971
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.

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
Alexander Papendiek
as Hinrich Wilmers
Ilse Bastubbe
Georg Leopold
Siegfried Weiß

Hans Teuscher

Angela Brunner

Helmut Schreiber

Helmut Schellhardt
Fritz Links

Kaspar Eichel
Peter Friedrichson

Carl-Hermann Risse
Gerda Abelt

Friederike Aust

Peter Bause

Karl Brenk

Frank-Otto Schenk

Traute Sense

Günter Wolf

Hermann Beyer
Ute Boeden
Klaus-Peter Pleßow
Jutta Liebster
Willi Neuenhahn

Harald Halgardt

Martin Trettau
Carin Abicht
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Hanna Rieger

Erik Veldre

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Carola Braunbock
Hans Rohde

Hans-Peter Reinecke
Anita Herbst
Heinz Laggies
Christoph Engel
Hans Flössel
Kurt Schmengler

Hans Klering
Horst Papke
Hans Ulrich Laufer
as Berner
Roland Kuchenbuch
Berthold Schulze
Adolf Fischer
Martin Süßenguth
Gert Hänsch

Renate Usko

Gerd Ehlers
Christa Pasemann
Otto Busse
Günter Sonnenberg
Anne-Else Paetzold

Horst Giese
Eva-Maria Eisenhardt
Günther Polensen
Gertraude Schwarzer

Jürgen Kluckert
Siegfried Kellermann
Klaus Pönitz
Günter Drescher

Albert Garbe
Eckhard Bilz
Manfred Ott