Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 28, 1980

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

East Germany, Germany

Production

DEFA,Fernsehen der DDR

Cast

Sonja Deutsch,Michael Christian,Ilka Hügel,Waltraut Kramm,Hanns-Jörn Weber,Till Kretzschmar,Martin Trettau,Monika Woytowicz,Walter Lendrich,Arno Wyzniewskiand 23 more

Director

Celino Bleiweiß

Writer

Eberhard Panitz,Celino Bleiweiß

Cinematography

Peter Krause

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0320108