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Sources of Life (2013)

Directed by Oskar Roehler

Overview

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.

Length 174 minutes

Actors

Jürgen Vogel | Meret Becker | Moritz Bleibtreu | Lavinia Wilson | Kostja Ullmann | Sonja Kirchberger | Thomas Heinze | Margarita Broich | Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht | Rolf Zacher | Heribert Sasse | Steffen Wink | Erika Marozsán | Anton Rattinger | Karoline Teska | Eva Bay | Lisa Smit | Michael Rastl | Markus Böttcher | Armin Dillenberger | Daniel Drewes | Thomas Goritzki | Anne Wallis de Vries | Gregor Bloéb | Thomas Kügel | Patrick Joswig | Dietmar Mössmer | Johannes Rotter | Ulrich Schmissat