Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)
• September 28th, 2007 • 3h 1min
TV Movie, Drama
Overview
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
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Thief
Released on: 1981-03-27
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to...
Until Death Do Us Part
Released on: 1979-05-17
Drama, Romance
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get...
Heroes Like Us
Released on: 1999-11-08
Drama, Comedy, Romance
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Released on: 1992-01-10
Drama, Thriller
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later ...
Grace Is Gone
Released on: 2007-12-07
Drama
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, a...
White Oleander
Released on: 2002-10-11
Drama
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...
Damage
Released on: 1992-12-02
Drama, Romance
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...
Midnight Express
Released on: 1978-08-31
Drama, Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
8 ½ Women
Released on: 1999-05-22
Drama, Comedy
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan esta...
Death Sentence
Released on: 2007-08-31
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses so...
Orange County
Released on: 2002-01-11
Comedy, Drama
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a w...
Runaway Train
Released on: 1985-11-15
Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only t...
Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel
Released on: 2004-11-21
TV Movie, Action, Comedy
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...
Eastern Cross
Released on: 1991-07-23
Drama, TV Movie
15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...
No Place to Go
Released on: 2000-04-20
Drama
Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...
Gilles
Released on: 2005-12-21
Drama
12-year-old Gilles dreams of becoming a professional footballer in the Belgian national squad, playi...
Autumn Sonata
Released on: 1978-10-08
Drama
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. ...
A Very Long Engagement
Released on: 2004-10-27
Drama, Romance, War
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...
Mercury Rising
Released on: 1998-04-03
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government...
The Punisher
Released on: 1989-10-05
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure ...