Quellen des Lebens
- Director
- Oskar Roehler
- Country
- Germany
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Drama, History, Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Oskar Roehler
- Cast
- Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Moritz Bleibtreu, Kostja Ullmann, Lavinia Wilson, Sonja Kirchberger, Margarita Broich, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Thomas Heinze, Steffen Wink, Erika Marozsán, Rolf Zacher, Leonard Scheicher, Lisa Smit
- Production
- X Filme Creative Pool GmbH, co-production WDR, ARD Degeto, BR, NDR, ARTE
Süss Film
Storyline
Germany 1949: When prisoner of war Erich eventually returns to a fledging new German Republic, he feels like a stranger in his own town. While the milestones of post war-German history are being shaped, we follow the stories of Erich, his children and grandchildren: His estranged wife Elisabeth has a female lover, when Erich, riding the wave of German "Wirtschaftswunder", establishes a factory for garden gnomes and eventually becomes a wealthy man. Their son Klaus strives to be a writer but his wife Gisela turns out to be a writer much superior to him. Offspring Robert, brought up among "Group 47" literates and sexual liberation, is struggling to find the one and true love in a country run by narcissists, new bourgoisie and former Nazis. And after all, former war prisoner Erich excels and overcomes his initial frustration and bitterness.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013
Official Selection - Competition
Releases
Germany (14 of February 2013)
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2013
Call number 07/2012
Media support 6.000,00€
Austria: FILMLADEN FILMVERLEIH GMBH
Distribution:
X Verleih (Germany)
