Tři kamarádi - 2 CDmp3 (Čte Hynek Čermák)

"Without love, a person is essentially like a corpse on vacation." Robby Lohkamp runs a small auto shop with Otto and Gottfried, alongside a gas station. In the uncertain times of the Weimar Republic, their friendly business keeps them afloat and allows them to drive cars on the roads in a way that risks hefty fines. The young man staying at a guesthouse by the cemetery would still like to fly far away – perhaps all the way to the lights of Rio de Janeiro – but his wings have been clipped by the front-line experiences of World War I and the shaky peace marked by poverty and drinking. Then he meets Patricia, and suddenly the world makes sense. Robby's beloved is sincere, sparkling, yet still perpetually cold, which has a devastating reason. And as if the misfortunes of 1928/29 weren't enough, gangsters incited by the fiery speeches of a mustachioed psychopath begin to rage in the streets. The result? As the novel of the great German pacifist approaches brown terror, which one cannot escape even at a speed of 189 km/h, despite the dire times, he wants so much to live – and survive. Even if fate is sometimes against him. For the attack against Hitler in the 1936 novel, which could only be published in the Netherlands at that time and most vividly illustrates Remarque's kinship with the giants of the "lost" generation, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the Nazis escalated...