Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

Movie

TV Movie

Drama

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

Date: 09/28/2007

Rating: 6.8

Cast: Veronica Ferres, Peter Kremer, Filip Peeters, Michael Schenk, Karl Kranzkowski, Maria Ehrich, Elisa Schlott, Peggy Lukac, Winnie Böwe, Charlotte Schwab, Julia Jäger, Götz Schubert, Katinka Auberger, Walter Hötte, Harald Günther, Peter Franke, Johannes Gabriel, Tim Kauermann, Martin Hudy, Annette Blum, Mats Långbacka, Christian Sandström, Tom Quaas, J. Christoffer Slotte, Jonas Laux, Dietmar Burkhard, Olaf Burmeister, Brigitte Böttrich, Sonja Deutsch, Maria Dragus, Hilmar Eichhorn, Șerban Georgevici, Thorsten Giese, Ulrike Haase, Cristin König, Michael Schernthaner, Grit Stephan, Fedja van Huêt, Julian Weigend, Ulrich Wohlleben

Veronica Ferres