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
Shiner
Released on: 2000-09-22
Drama, Action, Crime
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
S.F.W.
Released on: 1995-01-20
Comedy, Drama
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken h...
Sometimes They Come Back
Released on: 1991-05-07
Horror, TV Movie
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school...
Homecoming
Released on: 2013-11-05
Comedy, Drama
Five college friends spend Homecoming weekend at they house they used to live in when attending scho...
The Crossing Guard
Released on: 1995-01-26
Drama, Thriller
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, sw...
Rabbit Hole
Released on: 2010-12-16
Drama
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
The Milk of Sorrow
Released on: 2009-02-13
Drama
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the ...
Sugar Sand
Released on: 2017-06-24
Drama, TV Movie
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at th...
Birth/Rebirth
Released on: 2023-08-18
Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a litt...
Close to Leo
Released on: 2002-05-18
Drama, Family, TV Movie
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HI...
Photographing Fairies
Released on: 1997-09-19
Mystery, Fantasy, Drama
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...
The Mudge Boy
Released on: 2003-01-17
Drama, Romance
Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the att...
Onegin
Released on: 1999-12-22
Drama, Romance
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
Devil's Island
Released on: 1939-01-07
Drama
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
You the Rich
Released on: 1948-12-31
Drama, Comedy
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live
Released on: 2014-09-28
Music, Drama, History
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...
Annaluise & Anton
Released on: 1999-03-11
Family, Comedy, Drama
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...
Lolita
Released on: 1962-06-13
Drama, Romance
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
The Music Room
Released on: 1958-10-10
Drama, Music
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...
Sleepless in Seattle
Released on: 1993-06-24
Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...