
1971
3 Episodes

Gerhard Bienert
Johann Hardekopf

Ursula Braun
Pauline Hardekopf

Christian Balhaus
Ludwig Hardekopf

Roland Knappe
Carl Brenten

Gudrun Wendler
Frieda Brenten

Herbert Köfer
Gustav Stürck

Christel Peters
Frau Rüscher

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
August Bebel

Renate Blume
Cecilie

Frank Michelis
Tabakarbeiter

Alexander Papendiek
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
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.