Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)

Drama TV Movie

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

Updated May 10 2020

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2007-09-28

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berlin wall 1960s loss of mother loss of child german democratic republic attempt to escape escape agent east germany

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Runtime: 181 mins Rating: 6.7

Cast

Julia Jäger

Regina Pries

Peter Franke

Johannes Bender

Julian Weigend

Marek

Bruno Apitz

Jochen Hailer

Veronica Ferres

Sara Bender

Winnie Böwe

Britta Sandfuß

Karl Kranzkowski

Horst Seelig

Götz Schubert

Martin Pries

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