Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)
All the adventure a man can live, he lives.
2007-09-28
Germany
181 Min.
PG-13
TV Movie, Drama
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
Cast
Sara Bender
Peter Koch
Richard Panter
Hans Wimpel
Horst Seelig
Silvia Bender
Sabine Bender
Marlene Engel
Britta Sandfuß
Aenne Bubach
Regina Pries
Martin Pries
Birgit Henning
Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen
Berliner
Johannes Bender
Ostgrenzer 1
Ostgrenzer 2
Jäger
Frau Petrus
Polizist
Polizist
Gerd Landmann
Geschäftsmann in Helsinki
Gefreiter Lienig
Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest
Staatssekretär Reich
Leiterin des Kinderheims
Saras Nachbarin
Mielkes Stellvertreter
Polizist
Standesbeamter
Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
Eva Landmann
Rezeptionist in Budapest
Marek
Ministeriumsmitarbeiter
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