Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)
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Release09/28/2007
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ProductionUFA Fernsehproduktion
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Rotten tomato68%
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Original titleDie Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
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Original languagede
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Production Cost
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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
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Director
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Casts
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Sara Bender
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Peter Koch
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Richard Panter
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Hans Wimpel
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Horst Seelig
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Silvia Bender
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Sabine Bender
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Marlene Engel
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Britta Sandfuß
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Aenne Bubach
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Regina Pries
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Martin Pries
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Birgit Henning
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Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen
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Berliner
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Johannes Bender
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Ostgrenzer 1
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Ostgrenzer 2
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Jäger
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Frau Petrus
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Polizist
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Polizist
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Gerd Landmann
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Geschäftsmann in Helsinki
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Gefreiter Lienig
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Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest
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Staatssekretär Reich
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Leiterin des Kinderheims
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Saras Nachbarin
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Mielkes Stellvertreter
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Polizist
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Standesbeamter
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Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
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Eva Landmann
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Rezeptionist in Budapest
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Marek
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Ministeriumsmitarbeiter