Gesine Cresspahl, who lives in New York, tells her eleven-year-old daughter Marie the family history during the period 1967–1968. In flashbacks, she describes the time in Germany before and during National Socialism and the early GDR. In doing so, she also draws on events that took place before her birth. Important stages in the narrative are the following aspects: On Kristallnacht, Gesine's mother commits suicide, her father spies for the British Army during the war and is imprisoned by the Soviets for several years in the Fünfeichen camp after the war ends. After the founding of the GDR, Gesine and her lover Jakob are pressured by the Stasi because they refuse to carry out certain assignments. Eventually, Gesine emigrates to West Germany and then to the USA.
Suzanne von Borsody
Gesine Cressphal
Matthias Habich
Heinrich Cressphal
Axel Milberg
Dietrich Erichsohn
Hanns Zischler
De Rosny
Jutta Wachowiak
Mutter Abs
Nina Hoger
Anita Gantlik
Karin Gregorek
Louise Papenbrock
Kai Scheve
Jacob Abs
Edgar Selge
Rohlfs
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Unchosen68%
Sullivan's Crossing80%
Ambitions74%
Heimat80%
Road to Avonlea82%
Wu-Tang: An American Saga81%
The Couple Next Door58%
Homecoming69%
Black Cake66%
Return to Eden69%
Life on Top69%
Offspring69%
North of 6059%
The Newsreader75%
Upstairs, Downstairs78%
Tell Me a Story71%
The Romanoffs63%
Wilsberg78%
The Hitchhiker62%
