Plot
Ralph grows up in pre-war Dresden as the eldest son of a principled and orderly streetcar conductor. With the rise to power of the Nazis, the war, the collapse and the hesitant new beginning, his firmly established middle-class world is also thrown off course. His father is one of the first to be called up to the front. His mother is left alone with the responsibility for Ralph and his younger brother Achim. In the air-raid shelter, during the nights of bombing and later in the daily struggle against misery and hunger, the mother quickly abandons all moral baggage and develops a pragmatic will to survive, for which she admires Ralph. At the same time, the boy is frightened by his mother's desperate claim to happiness because he perceives her affairs as a betrayal of his father, who has gradually faded into a symbol of a happy, carefree childhood.
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Cast
Monika Woytowicz
Gerti Donath
Arno Wyzniewski
Rene Kalaene
Ruth Kommerell
Walter Lendrich
Susanne Krahnert
Carmen-Maja Antoni
Tante Helli
Sylvester Groth
Janker
Rolf Hoppe
Lehrer Kirsche
Erdmute Schmidt-Christian
Tante Lotte
Hanns-Jörn Weber
Michael Christian
Wilfried Pucher
Hannes Fischer
Hans-Peter Reinecke
Elke Reuter
Blanche Kommerell
Till Kretzschmar
Sonja Deutsch
Gerry Wolff
Frank-Otto Schenk
Waltraut Kramm
Darja
Gisbert-Peter Terhorst
Ulrich Teschner
Günter Drescher
Ilka Hügel
Martin Trettau
Roman-Eckhard Galonska
Robert Wittmers
Anita Herbst
Gertraud Last
Theresia Wider
Hans Klering
