Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
Nadja Uhl
as Anna Degen
Axel Prahl
as Erwin Redlich
Hannelore Elsner
as Ludmilla Dimitrieff
Dagmar Manzel
as Martchen
Merab Ninidze
as Russischer Offizier
Katharina Thalbach
as Oma Teuber
Maria Simon
as Lona Furkert
Richy Müller
as Karl Hotze
Michael Schenk
as Gestapomann
Holger Kunkel
as Nazibonze
Petra Schmidt-Schaller
as Rosa
Steffi Kühnert
as Käthe Hotze