Gerta Schnirch

The story

Gerta grows up in 1930s Brno in a mixed Czech-German family, which brings her into conflict with her father as he embraces Nazi ideology. Despite this, they remain connected through their shared love of music. During the occupation, Gerta joins the student resistance with her beloved Karel, but the war takes everything from her and leaves her with a dark secret that shapes her future. After the war, though innocent, Gerta is violently forced into the wild expulsion and must leave her hometown with her infant daughter. She survives the hardest years on a rural farm, reunites with Karel, and returns to Brno hoping for a normal life—yet the past continues to haunt her. The two-part TV film Gerta Schnirch offers a personal view of 20th-century history through the fate of a woman caught between two worlds.

Cast

B Barbora VáchováGerta M Milena SteinmasslováGerta (old) O Oskar HesKarel L Lucie ŠtěpánkováBarbora M Martina CzyžováHana V Vincent DoddemaHoltz A Alena MihulováMarkvartová M Michal Dalecký H Hubert Ludwig J Jiří Tesárek V Viktor Kuzník Z Zdeněk Pecháček

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E Eva Vrbková M Marta Sovová J Johann von BülowGerta's Father K Kristýna Badinková NovákováGerta's Mother C Carl GrübelFriedrich G Georg BütowJunge J Juliana TricoliAnna Marie A Alexandra Vostrejžová M Matěj Havelka T Tereza Nekudová B Bára Jelínková J Jiří Vojta Z Zlatko Teskere T Tomáš Matušinec R Radim Madeja D Daniel-Frantisek Kamen A Alisa Gertsovskaya M Magdalena Prostá N Nataša Gáčová H Hana Lapčíková J Jennifer Baluchová K Kamila Břicháčová J Jan Bartoška J Josef Horák P Petr Reif V Vendula Holičková Š Šárka Šildová J Jiří Perůtka J Jan GrundmanSchmidt Z Zuzana MauréryZipfelová P Pippa Fee RuppertiTeresa H Henrike von KuickJohanna R Radka CaldováHelga A Attila MokosŠenk Z Zuzana HesováBarborka (6 years old) E Eliana ParobkováBarborka (6 months old) T Terezie Holá A Alena Bazalová S Samuel Teicher E Emil Fles A Agáta Červinková N Nazar Kulchykovskyi A Andrej Pachinger H Hana Frejková A Adam Sala P Pavel Semerád P Philipp Schenker V Vendula Holišová F František Strnad M Michal Škach M Mikuláš Matoušek A Antonín Holub J Jitka Antošíková J Jan Jakubal K Konstantin Zhyrov T Tobiáš Pokorný