Release Date

28 Dec, 1980

Total Episode/Season

2/1

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

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Season 1

28 Dec, 1980

Actors

Monika Woytowicz

Arno Wyzniewski

Rene Kalaene

Ruth Kommerell

Walter Lendrich

Susanne Krahnert

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Sylvester Groth

Rolf Hoppe

Erdmute Schmidt-Christian

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

Crew

Celino Bleiweiß

Celino Bleiweiß

Eberhard Panitz

Andrzej Korzyński

Peter Krause

Lotti Mehnert