Sources of Life
2013, German. Directed by Oskar Roehler.
This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
- Runtime
- 2h 54m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Oskar RoehlerDirector
- Jürgen VogelErich Freytag
- Meret BeckerElisabeth Freytag
- Moritz BleibtreuKlaus Freytag
- Lavinia WilsonGisela Ellers
- Kostja UllmannKlaus, jung
- Sonja KirchbergerMarie Freytag
- Thomas HeinzeMartin Ellers
- Margarita BroichHildegard Ellers
- Wilson Gonzalez OchsenknechtSchwarz
- Rolf ZacherErwin
- Heribert SasseLedig-Rowohlt
- Steffen WinkHerr Werner
Details
- Released
- 14 February 2013
- Original title
- Quellen des Lebens
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler
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Sources of Life runs 174 minutes (2h 54m).
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Sources of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 14 February 2013. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Sources of Life?
Sources of Life (2013) was directed by Oskar Roehler and stars Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Moritz Bleibtreu.