Movie · 1960
Life Begins
Released 8 April 1960 119 min Drama More from 1960 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
A new world full of excitement and temptation opens up for 18-year-old Erika when her father flees from Krüselin, a small village in Brandenburg, to West Berlin, taking his daughter with him. Her uncle's luxurious house, the turbulence of life in the big city, and her cousin's progressive thinking and quick wit all turn her head at first. But behind all this glitter and tinsel lurks the cold, hard world of money and Erika begins to feel homesick for the town where she grew up and for Rolf, her first real boyfriend.
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How old were they?
Gertrud Brendler
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Marga Legal
as Frau Gruber
Raimund Schelcher
as Direktor Gruber
Manja Behrens
as Frau Brenner
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
as Dr. Schenk
Horst Kube
Gisela May
as Chefärztin
Rolf Ludwig
as Benno Brenner
Hans Lucke
Ruth-Maria Kubitschek
as Geheimrätin
Erik Veldre
as Rolf Gruber
Hartmut Reck
as Werner
Doris Abeßer
as Erika Schenk
Micaela Kreißler
Maximilian Larsen
as Postbeamter
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The numbers
43years between the oldest and youngest billed
61Gertrud Brendler — oldest on the call sheet
18Micaela Kreißler — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast