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S1·E1 The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928)1918 (November) -- World War I ends.
1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias Simon live in the small village of Schabbach in…
S1·E2 The Center of the World (1928-1933)1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the ill-equipped Weimar democracy.
1932 -- …
S1·E3 The Best Christmas Ever (1935)From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants her husband to rise politically. She constantly…
S1·E4 The Highway (1938)1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigrates to the United States. A young Swedish girl…
S1·E5 Up and Away and Back (1938-1939)1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis.
A bombshell is dropped on Maria and Otto. Paul Simon…
S1·E6 The Home Front (1943)1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation really begins to deteriorate for the Germans in the…
S1·E7 Soldiers and Love (1944)1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins plant a bomb which goes off near Hitler, but…
S1·E8 The American (1944-1947)1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders.
Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunity for her to help Eduard move up in terms of…
S1·E9 Little Hermann (1955-1956)1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact.
Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann. She has great plans for him, wanting him to…
S1·E10 The Proud Years (1967-1969)1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West.
1969 -- Chancellor Willy Brantd opens negotiations with East…
S1·E11 The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and the formal unification of West and East…Cast
K
Kurt Wagner
Glasisch Karl
W
Willi Burger
Mathias Simon
J
Johannes Lobewein
Alois Wiegand
E
Eva Maria Schneider
Marie-Goot
A
Arno Lang
Robert Kröber
S
Sabine Wagner
Martha
A
Alexander Scholz
Hänschen
J
Jörg Hube
Otto Wohlleben
O
Otto Henn
Glockzieh
M
Manfred Kuhn
Wirt
J
Jörg Richter
Hermann Simon
K
Karin Kienzer
Pauline Kröber
M
Markus Reiter
Anton Simon
M
Matthias Kniesbeck
Anton Simon
Crew
- Creator
- Edgar Reitz
- Director
- Edgar Reitz
- Writers
- Peter Steinbach, Edgar Reitz
- Producers
- Joachim von Mengershausen, Hans Kwiet, Edgar Reitz
- Cinematography
- Gernot Roll
- Editing
- Heidi Handorf
- Composer
- Nikos Mamangakis
- Costume Design
- Regine Bätz
Details
- First air date
- Sep 16, 1984
- Last air date
- Nov 4, 1984
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 11
- Episode runtime
- 90 min
- Network
- Das Erste
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion, WDR, Sender Freies Berlin, ERF / Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German, French, English
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