Verwandte und Bekannte

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.

• Georg LeopoldWriter
• Hans-Albert PederzaniWriter
• Georg LeopoldDirector

• Gerhard BienertJohann Hardekopf
• Ursula BraunPauline Hardekopf
• Christian BalhausLudwig Hardekopf
• Roland KnappeCarl Brenten
• Gudrun WendlerFrieda Brenten
• Herbert KöferGustav Stürck
• Christel PetersFrau Rüscher
• Hans Hardt-HardtloffAugust Bebel
• Renate BlumeCecilie
• Frank MichelisTabakarbeiter
• Alexander PapendiekHinrich Wilmers
• Ilse BastubbeCast