Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)
Synopsis
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
Release Date: 2007-09-28
Runtime: 181 minutes
Director: Miguel Alexandre
Top Cast
- Veronica Ferres as Sara Bender
- Peter Kremer as Peter Koch
- Filip Peeters as Richard Panter
- Michael Schenk as Hans Wimpel
- Karl Kranzkowski as Horst Seelig
- Maria Ehrich as Silvia Bender
- Elisa Schlott as Sabine Bender
- Peggy Lukac as Marlene Engel
- Winnie Böwe as Britta Sandfuß
- Charlotte Schwab as Aenne Bubach
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