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.
Length 228 minutes
Gerhard Bienert | Ursula Braun | Christian Balhaus | Roland Knappe | Gudrun Wendler | Herbert Köfer | Christel Peters | Hans Hardt-Hardtloff | Renate Blume | Frank Michelis | Alexander Papendiek | 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 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 | 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