
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

Sara Bender

Peter Koch

Richard Panter

Hans Wimpel

Horst Seelig

Silvia Bender

Sabine Bender

Marlene Engel

Britta Sandfuß

Aenne Bubach

Regina Pries

Martin Pries
Birgit Henning
Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen
Berliner

Johannes Bender

Ostgrenzer 1
Ostgrenzer 2
Jäger
Frau Petrus

Polizist
Polizist

Gerd Landmann
Geschäftsmann in Helsinki

Gefreiter Lienig
Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest

Staatssekretär Reich

Leiterin des Kinderheims
Saras Nachbarin


Mielkes Stellvertreter

Polizist

Standesbeamter
Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
Eva Landmann
Rezeptionist in Budapest


Marek
Ministeriumsmitarbeiter