Gerta grows up in 1930s Brno in a mixed Czech-German family, which brings her into conflict with her father as he embraces Nazi ideology. Despite this, they remain connected through their shared love of music. During the occupation, Gerta joins the student resistance with her beloved Karel, but the war takes everything from her and leaves her with a dark secret that shapes her future. After the war, though innocent, Gerta is violently forced into the wild expulsion and must leave her hometown with her infant daughter. She survives the hardest years on a rural farm, reunites with Karel, and returns to Brno hoping for a normal life—yet the past continues to haunt her. The two-part TV film Gerta Schnirch offers a personal view of 20th-century history through the fate of a woman caught between two worlds.
as Gerta Schnirch young
as Gerta Schnirch old
as Karel Černý
as Schmidt
as Barbora
as Hana
as Gerta's father
as Gerta's mother
as Friedrich
as Oskar Junge
as Anna-Marie Junge
as Markvartová
as Zipfel
as Teresa
as Johanna
as Helga
as Šenk
as Holtz
as Barborka 6 years old
as Barborka 6 months old
