The children of Herbert and Hella, two single train conductors, are going to vacation at Baltic Sea. Unfortunately the parents are to busy to go so the oldest sister is in charge.
Acting
Child actors feel genuinely unsupervised in the best way.
Production
Baltic Sea locations capture melancholic socialist vacation aesthetics.
Director
Wolfgang Hübner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA studio films like this offered rare honest portrayals of working-class family strain under socialist economics.
Marijam Agischewa later became a prominent TV host in unified Germany—quite the career pivot from GDR child actor.
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