Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.
as Irma Lankwitz
as Elisabeth Selbert
as Frieda Nadig
as Lore Mertens
as Helene Wessel
as Helene Weber
as Adam Selbert
as Albert Finck
as Heinrich Bode
as Carlo Schmid
as Theodor Heuss
as Konrad Adenauer
as Walter Strauss
as Herbert Wagner
as Martha Wagner
