Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
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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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Monika Woytowicz
Gerti Donath
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Arno Wyzniewski
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Celino Bleiweiß
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The Green Monster
Rene Kalaene
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Island of Swans
Meines Vaters Straßenbahn
Alfried Nehring
Ruth Kommerell
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Fridolin
One Has To Be The Corpse
Eberhard Panitz
Walter Lendrich
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Mensch, Oma
Rottenknechte
Andreas Hügelland
Ralph Donath
Susanne Krahnert
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Andre Brüggemann
Ralph Donath
Carmen-Maja Antoni
Tante Helli
Known for
The Kangaroo Chronicles
Ants in the Pants 2
Celino Bleiweiß Director · Eberhard Panitz Writer Peter Krause Cinematographer
First release December 28, 1980 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production Fernsehen der DDR, DEFA
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
Production
DEFA
Production
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production · Distribution
XG · Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · December 28, 1980
Theatrical · East Germany
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