Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.
Jutta Wachowiak
as Käthe Kollwitz
Fred Düren
as Karl Kollwitz
Carmen-Maja Antoni
as Lina
Gerd Baltus
as Sander
Matthias Freihof
as Peter Kollwitz
Detlef Bierstedt
as SA-Mann
Rolf Ludwig
as Gestapobeamter
Eckhard Becker
as Kritiker
