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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)

ALL 09/28/2007 (de) TV Movie, Drama 181 Min
  • Release
    09/28/2007
  • Production
    UFA Fernsehproduktion GmbH
  • Rotten tomato
    69%
  • Original title
    Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

  1. Miguel Alexandre

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Veronica Ferres

    Sara Bender

  2. Peter Kremer

    Peter Koch

  3. Filip Peeters

    Richard Panter

  4. Michael Schenk

    Hans Wimpel

  5. Karl Kranzkowski

    Horst Seelig

  6. Maria Ehrich

    Silvia Bender

  7. Elisa Schlott

    Sabine Bender

  8. Peggy Lukac

    Marlene Engel

  9. Bruno Apitz

    Jochen Hailer

  10. Winnie Böwe

    Britta Sandfuß

  11. Charlotte Schwab

    Aenne Bubach

  12. Julia Jäger

    Regina Pries

  13. Götz Schubert

    Martin Pries

  14. Katinka Auberger

    Birgit Henning

  15. Walter Hötte

    Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen

  16. Harald Günther

    Berliner

  17. Peter Franke

    Johannes Bender

  18. Johannes Gabriel

    Ostgrenzer 1

  19. Tim Kauermann

    Ostgrenzer 2

  20. Martin Hudy

    Jäger

  21. Annette Blum

    Frau Petrus

  22. Mats Långbacka

    Polizist

  23. Christian Sandström

    Polizist

  24. Tom Quaas

    Gerd Landmann

  25. J. Christoffer Slotte

    Geschäftsmann in Helsinki

  26. Jonas Laux

    Gefreiter Lienig

  27. Dietmar Burkhard

    Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest

  28. Olaf Burmeister

    Staatssekretär Reich

  29. Brigitte Böttrich

    Leiterin des Kinderheims

  30. Sonja Deutsch

    Saras Nachbarin

  31. Maria Dragus

  32. Hilmar Eichhorn

    Mielkes Stellvertreter

  33. Șerban Georgevici

    Polizist

  34. Thorsten Giese

    Standesbeamter

  35. Ulrike Haase

    Chorleiterin des Kinderheims

  36. Cristin König

    Eva Landmann

  37. Michael Schernthaner

    Rezeptionist in Budapest

  38. Grit Stephan

  39. Fedja van Huêt

  40. Julian Weigend

    Marek

  41. Ulrich Wohlleben

    Ministeriumsmitarbeiter

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 41 , Crews : 2

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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) 181 Min

ALL 09/28/2007 (de)
TV Movie, Drama
  • Release 09/28/2007
  • Production
    UFA Fernsehproduktion GmbH
  • Original title Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

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

  1. Miguel Alexandre

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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