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
as Sara Bender
as Peter Koch
as Richard Panter
as Hans Wimpel
as Horst Seelig
as Silvia Bender
as Sabine Bender
as Marlene Engel
as Britta Sandfuß
as Aenne Bubach
as Regina Pries
as Martin Pries
as Birgit Henning
as Vater im Auffanglager Göttingen
as Berliner
as Johannes Bender
as Ostgrenzer 1
as Ostgrenzer 2
as Jäger
as Frau Petrus
as Polizist
as Polizist
as Gerd Landmann
as Geschäftsmann in Helsinki
as Gefreiter Lienig
as Mitarbeiter der DDR-Botschaft in Bukarest
as Staatssekretär Reich
as Leiterin des Kinderheims
as Saras Nachbarin
as Mielkes Stellvertreter
as Polizist
as Standesbeamter
as Chorleiterin des Kinderheims
as Eva Landmann
as Rezeptionist in Budapest
as Marek
as Ministeriumsmitarbeiter
