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Peter, Lotte, and Frieda are illegitimate and have been packed off to foster parents. But the Zielke family is only interested in money. The father drinks, beats Peter, and eventually forces him to go out to work. When Lotte dies of pneumonia, Peter tells the health authorities the truth – that her real cause of death was exhaustion. The children are removed from the Zielke home. Frieda is taken in by a friendly miller and his wife, while Peter ends up with an unmarried lady. Then Peter’s biological father, a river boatman, shows up and asserts his right to have Peter work for him on board the boat. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Bernhard Goetzke
German Empire
Best movies:
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Destiny (1921)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Käthe Haack
German Empire
Best movies:
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
Der Fußgänger (1973)
Fireworks "Oh! My Pa-Pa!" (1954)
Paul Bildt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Mountain Calls (1938)
Adventure in Berlin (1952)
Anastasia (1956)
Margarete Kupfer
German Empire
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
Woman in the Moon (1929)
The Congress Dances (1931)
Elsa Wagner
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Barcarole (1935)
The Burning Soil (1922)
The Haunted Castle (1960)
Hermine Sterler
German Empire
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Kings Row (1942)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Trude Lehmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Viktor and Viktoria (1933)
Max Maximilian
German Empire
Best movies:
Woman in the Moon (1929)
The Man Who Cheated Life (1926)
Lili Schoenborn-Anspach
German Empire
Best movies:
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1937)
Rommel ruft Kairo (1959)
Hugo Flink
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Der große König (1942)
The Golden City (1942)
Jaro Fürth
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Street of Sorrow (1925)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Crown of Thorns (1923)