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
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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
Julia Jäger as Regina Pries
Götz Schubert as Martin Pries
Katinka Auberger as Birgit Henning
Walter Hötte as Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen
Harald Günther as Berliner
Peter Franke as Johannes Bender
Johannes Gabriel as Ostgrenzer 1
Tim Kauermann as Ostgrenzer 2
Martin Hudy as Jäger
Annette Blum as Frau Petrus
Mats Långbacka as Polizist
Christian Sandström as Polizist
Tom Quaas as Gerd Landmann
J. Christoffer Slotte as Geschäftsmann in Helsinki
Jonas Laux as Gefreiter Lienig
Dietmar Burkhard as Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest
Olaf Burmeister as Staatssekretär Reich
Brigitte Böttrich as Leiterin des Kinderheims
Sonja Deutsch as Saras Nachbarin
Maria Dragus as
Hilmar Eichhorn as Mielkes Stellvertreter
Șerban Georgevici as Polizist
Thorsten Giese as Standesbeamter
Ulrike Haase as Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
Cristin König as Eva Landmann
Michael Schernthaner as Rezeptionist in Budapest
Grit Stephan as
Fedja van Huêt as
Julian Weigend as Marek
Ulrich Wohlleben as Ministeriumsmitarbeiter
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