
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 SandfuĆ

Aenne Bubach

Regina Pries

Martin Pries

Birgit Henning
Vater im Auffanglager Gƶttingen
Berliner
Johannes Bender

Ostgrenzer 1

Ostgrenzer 2
JƤger
Frau Petrus
Polizist

Polizist
Gerd Landmann

GeschƤftsmann in Helsinki
Gefreiter Lienig

Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest
StaatssekretƤr Reich

Leiterin des Kinderheims

Saras Nachbarin
Unknown Role

Mielkes Stellvertreter

Polizist

Standesbeamter

Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
Eva Landmann
Rezeptionist in Budapest
Unknown Role
Unknown Role

Marek

Ministeriumsmitarbeiter