Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
La femme de Checkpoint Charlie
Original title: Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Original language: deIMDB: tt0908423
TMDB: 11776
Release date: Friday, 28th September 2007
Adult: No
Duration: 3h 1min
Popularity: 6.329
Rate: 6.786 / 7 votes
Overview: Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Popularity: 6.329
Rate: 6.786 / 7 votes
Overview: Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Directors
Miguel Alexandre
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Annette Hess
(Author)
(Author)Cast
Veronica Ferres
(Sara Bender)
(Sara Bender)Peter Kremer
(Peter Koch)
(Peter Koch)Filip Peeters
(Richard Panter)
(Richard Panter)Michael Schenk
(Hans Wimpel)
(Hans Wimpel)Karl Kranzkowski
(Horst Seelig)
(Horst Seelig)Maria Ehrich
(Silvia Bender)
(Silvia Bender)Elisa Schlott
(Sabine Bender)
(Sabine Bender)Peggy Lukac
(Marlene Engel)
(Marlene Engel)Winnie Böwe
(Britta Sandfuß)
(Britta Sandfuß)Charlotte Schwab
(Aenne Bubach)
(Aenne Bubach)Julia Jäger
(Regina Pries)
(Regina Pries)Götz Schubert
(Martin Pries)
(Martin Pries)Katinka Auberger (Birgit Henning)
(Birgit Henning)Walter Hötte (Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen)
(Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen)Harald Günther (Berliner)
(Berliner)Peter Franke
(Johannes Bender)
(Johannes Bender)Johannes Gabriel
(Ostgrenzer 1)
(Ostgrenzer 1)Tim Kauermann (Ostgrenzer 2)
(Ostgrenzer 2)Martin Hudy (Jäger)
(Jäger)Annette Blum (Frau Petrus)
(Frau Petrus)Mats Långbacka
(Polizist)
(Polizist)Christian Sandström (Polizist)
(Polizist)Tom Quaas
(Gerd Landmann)
(Gerd Landmann)J. Christoffer Slotte (Geschäftsmann in Helsinki)
(Geschäftsmann in Helsinki)Jonas Laux
(Gefreiter Lienig)
(Gefreiter Lienig)Dietmar Burkhard (Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest)
(Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest)Olaf Burmeister
(Staatssekretär Reich)
(Staatssekretär Reich)Brigitte Böttrich
(Leiterin des Kinderheims)
(Leiterin des Kinderheims)Sonja Deutsch (Saras Nachbarin)
(Saras Nachbarin)
Hilmar Eichhorn
(Mielkes Stellvertreter)
(Mielkes Stellvertreter)Șerban Georgevici
(Polizist)
(Polizist)Thorsten Giese (Standesbeamter)
(Standesbeamter)Ulrike Haase (Chorleiterin des Kinderheims)
(Chorleiterin des Kinderheims)Cristin König (Eva Landmann)
(Eva Landmann)Michael Schernthaner (Rezeptionist in Budapest)
(Rezeptionist in Budapest)
Julian Weigend
(Marek)
(Marek)Ulrich Wohlleben (Ministeriumsmitarbeiter)
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