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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

28 Sep 2007
  • Germany
181 mins
6.75
8 votes
  • TV Movie
  • Drama
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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
  • Veronica Ferres

    as Sara Bender
  • Peter Kremer

    as Peter Koch
  • Filip Peeters

    as Richard Panter
  • Michael Schenk

    as Hans Wimpel
  • Karl Kranzkowski

    as Horst Seelig
  • Maria Ehrich

    as Silvia Bender
  • Elisa Schlott

    as Sabine Bender
  • Peggy Lukac

    as Marlene Engel
  • Winnie Böwe

    as Britta Sandfuß
  • Charlotte Schwab

    as Aenne Bubach
  • Julia Jäger

    as Regina Pries
  • Götz Schubert

    as Martin Pries

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