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SummaryKarl Achilles, 65 years old and thirty years old at the Bitterfeld chemical combine, retires. Bitterness befalls him on his last day at work. He is still strong and active, but he also knows that he is no longer up to the demands made of him as a master. That's why he volunteers. A younger person, the university graduate Bahre, is already trying out Achilles' workplace. Area manager Walura gives a banquet for the honorable farewell - along with bonus and the usual praise. And at home the preparations for the private celebration in the evening run, organized by his new partner. The children have also come. All this does not make it easier for Achilles to say goodbye to the company he had helped to build up since 1945. On his way through the city he rests on a park bench, next to two pensioners. He destroyed his flowerbed on the industrial slagheap, where he cultivated particularly resistant flowers to beautify the defaced landscape. He's escaping from the family reunion. The next morning he goes to his flower beds and fixes them up.
(Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946-1992)
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Decade1970
Production Year1975
Release date20 Nov 1975
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ActorsWalter Lendrich, Erwin Geschonneck, Walter Bechstein, Fred-Artur Geppert, Carl Heinz Choynski, Elsa Grube-Deister, Christa Löser, Dieter Franke, Horst Lebinsky, Fred Delmare, Gert Gütschow, Hermann Beyer, Ute Lubosch, Jutta Wachowiak, Hilmar Baumann, Wolfgang Winkler
