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.
Gerhard Bienert
as Johann Hardekopf
Ursula Braun
as Pauline Hardekopf
Christian Balhaus
as Ludwig Hardekopf
Roland Knappe
as Carl Brenten
Gudrun Wendler
as Frieda Brenten
Herbert Köfer
as Gustav Stürck
Christel Peters
as Frau Rüscher
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as August Bebel
Renate Blume
as Cecilie
Frank Michelis
as Tabakarbeiter
Alexander Papendiek
as Hinrich Wilmers
Ilse Bastubbe
as
