Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.
Anna Maria Mühe
as Irma Lankwitz
Iris Berben
as Elisabeth Selbert
Lena Stolze
as Frieda Nadig
Maja Schöne
as Lore Mertens
Eleonore Weisgerber
as Helene Wessel
Petra Welteroth
as Helene Weber
Rudolf Kowalski
as Adam Selbert
Walter Sittler
as Albert Finck
Max von Thun
as Heinrich Bode
Felix Vörtler
as Carlo Schmid
Klaus Mikoleit
as Theodor Heuss
Dietrich Mattausch
as Konrad Adenauer
