based on the autobiographical novel Tadelloser & Wolff by WALTER KEMPOWSKI
Walter Kempowski is a nine-year-old boy when his story begins. Through his eyes we see the life of a comfortable bourgeois family in the Baltic Sea port of Rostock, conservative and anti-Nazi, but still proud to be German. We see him at school and enjoying the lazy summer of 1939 when suddenly the dark clouds of war change his entire world: rationing, restrictions, his father, a veteran from the First World War called up as a reserve officer; his mother becoming an air-raid warden, risking her life during the devastating RAF raids on the Heinkel aircraft works; his sister involved with a Dane who is arrested by the Gestapo under suspicion of spying. Walter himself is finally forced to enlist at the age of 15 as a dispatch-rider during the closing days of the war, fighting his way through the ruins of Berlin to return to his home town, only to see the first Russian soldier - sub-machine gun in hand -cautiously entering the empty streets.... with the English voices of JOHN CARSON , CECILE CHEVREAU ,
FRANK DUNCAN , IAN THOMPSON , PATTI LOVE ,
JEAN ENGLAND, DANIEL FLYNN , MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Screenplay and direction by EBERHARD FECHNER Dubbing director MICHAEL BAKEWELL
A POLYPHON/ZDF co-production