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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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Jonas Laux
Gefreiter Lienig
Peter Kremer
Peter Koch
Maria Ehrich
Silvia Bender
Marie-Anna Fliegel
Peter Kochs Mutter
Thorsten Giese
Standesbeamter
Bruno Apitz
Jochen Hailer
Veronica Ferres
Sara Bender
Michael Schenk
Hans Wimpel
Peter Franke
Johannes Bender
Charlotte Schwab
Aenne Bubach
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