Cast

Luise Ullrich Werner Krauss Käthe Haack Karl Ludwig Diehl Albert Hehn John Pauls-Harding

Credits

Written by: Walter Lieck

Plot

The life story of a woman from the 1870s to the 1940s in a German family, moving through three generations of change, made during the Nazi period.

Sinekatalog’s take

A sentimental melodrama of its era.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 4.7 / 10 (81 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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