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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
    68%
  • 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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Casts

  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. Winnie Böwe

    Britta Sandfuß

  10. Charlotte Schwab

    Aenne Bubach

  11. Julia Jäger

    Regina Pries

  12. Götz Schubert

    Martin Pries

  13. Katinka Auberger

    Birgit Henning

  14. Walter Hötte

    Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen

  15. Harald Günther

    Berliner

  16. Peter Franke

    Johannes Bender

  17. Johannes Gabriel

    Ostgrenzer 1

  18. Tim Kauermann

    Ostgrenzer 2

  19. Martin Hudy

    Jäger

  20. Annette Blum

    Frau Petrus

  21. Mats Långbacka

    Polizist

  22. Christian Sandström

    Polizist

  23. Tom Quaas

    Gerd Landmann

  24. J. Christoffer Slotte

    Geschäftsmann in Helsinki

  25. Jonas Laux

    Gefreiter Lienig

  26. Dietmar Burkhard

    Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest

  27. Olaf Burmeister

    Staatssekretär Reich

  28. Brigitte Böttrich

    Leiterin des Kinderheims

  29. Sonja Deutsch

    Saras Nachbarin

  30. Maria Dragus

  31. Hilmar Eichhorn

    Mielkes Stellvertreter

  32. Șerban Georgevici

    Polizist

  33. Thorsten Giese

    Standesbeamter

  34. Ulrike Haase

    Chorleiterin des Kinderheims

  35. Cristin König

    Eva Landmann

  36. Michael Schernthaner

    Rezeptionist in Budapest

  37. Grit Stephan

  38. Fedja van Huêt

  39. Julian Weigend

    Marek

  40. Ulrich Wohlleben

    Ministeriumsmitarbeiter

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 40 , 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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