Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

The story

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

V Veronica FerresSara Bender P Peter KremerPeter Koch F Filip PeetersRichard Panter M Michael SchenkHans Wimpel K Karl KranzkowskiHorst Seelig M Maria EhrichSilvia Bender E Elisa SchlottSabine Bender P Peggy LukacMarlene Engel W Winnie BöweBritta Sandfuß C Charlotte SchwabAenne Bubach J Julia JägerRegina Pries G Götz SchubertMartin Pries

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K Katinka AubergerBirgit Henning W Walter HötteVater im Auffanglager Göttingen H Harald GüntherBerliner P Peter FrankeJohannes Bender J Johannes GabrielOstgrenzer 1 T Tim KauermannOstgrenzer 2 M Martin HudyJäger A Annette BlumFrau Petrus M Mats LångbackaPolizist C Christian SandströmPolizist T Tom QuaasGerd Landmann J J. Christoffer SlotteGeschäftsmann in Helsinki J Jonas LauxGefreiter Lienig D Dietmar BurkhardMitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest O Olaf BurmeisterStaatssekretär Reich B Brigitte BöttrichLeiterin des Kinderheims S Sonja DeutschSaras Nachbarin M Maria Dragus H Hilmar EichhornMielkes Stellvertreter Ș Șerban GeorgeviciPolizist T Thorsten GieseStandesbeamter U Ulrike HaaseChorleiterin des Kinderheims C Cristin KönigEva Landmann M Michael SchernthanerRezeptionist in Budapest G Grit Stephan F Fedja van Huêt J Julian WeigendMarek U Ulrich WohllebenMinisteriumsmitarbeiter