Dach überm Kopf
6.2
Karoline Gluth is approaching forty, has an 18-year-old son who is studying and is therefore independent. She decides to start a new life and says goodbye to the family inn on the island of Rügen, where she earned a good living as a cook. She buys a little house on the outskirts of Berlin - based on a photo. The reality, however, looks less favourable than the picture. The house is close to collapse and has an illegal occupant, Christian. She evicts him, but he helps her through the jungle of organising tradesmen and materials. In the process, she meets construction brigadier Herbert Kotbuß, clashes with him - and impresses him. Karoline struggles through, the money runs out, she even has to sell her car, and in the end the house is still pretty much a patchwork. But she has realised her ambition for herself - a new independent life begins.
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Cast
28 people
Renate Geißler
Karoline Gluth
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Die Rote Meile
Fridolin
Dieter Franke
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Who's Afraid of the Devil
The Master Thief
Ulrich Thein
Brigitte Krex
Udo Schenk
Christian von der Weide
Known for
13 Minutes
Klaus-Dieter Henkler
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Du und ich und Klein-Paris
Hartwig Strobel
Erika Dunkelmann
Else Gluth
Also in
A Berlin Romance
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Willi Brückner
Helga Raumer
Also in
Fridolin
Ways across the Country
Margit Schaumäker
Bärbel Bolle
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Banale Tage
Farewell, Joseph
Ulrich Thein Director · Hartwig Strobel Writer Brigitte Krex Editor
First release September 25, 1980 · Produced in XG · Production DEFA
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
DEFA
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XG
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · September 25, 1980
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No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
April 7, 1983
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