Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)

September 28th, 20073h 1min

TV Movie, Drama
68%

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

Apocalypto

Apocalypto


Released on: 2006-12-07
Action, Drama, History

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

Nowhere in Africa

Nowhere in Africa


Released on: 2001-12-11
Drama

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

Land of Plenty

Land of Plenty


Released on: 2004-09-10
Drama

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him


Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Ray

Ray


Released on: 2004-10-29
Drama, Music

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Whale Rider

Whale Rider


Released on: 2003-01-30
Drama, Family

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...

In My Father's Den

In My Father's Den


Released on: 2004-06-11
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling s...

Babel

Babel


Released on: 2006-10-26
Drama

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Don't Worry, I'm Fine


Released on: 2006-09-06
Drama

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with the...

Sex and Lucía

Sex and Lucía


Released on: 2001-08-24
Drama, Romance

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inex...

Monster's Ball

Monster's Ball


Released on: 2001-12-26
Drama, Romance

A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he pr...

The Discovery of Heaven

The Discovery of Heaven


Released on: 2001-10-01
Drama, Fantasy

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back th...

Rocky IV

Rocky IV


Released on: 1985-11-21
Drama

Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Dra...

Party Monster

Party Monster


Released on: 2003-09-05
Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller

The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirro...

The Coast Guard

The Coast Guard


Released on: 2002-11-22
Drama, War

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined...

Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto


Released on: 2005-11-16
Drama, Comedy

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in se...

November

November


Released on: 2004-01-18
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if...

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The Beat That My Heart Skipped


Released on: 2005-03-16
Drama, Crime

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...

Learning to Lie

Learning to Lie


Released on: 2003-07-02
Comedy, Drama

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...

Walk the Line

Walk the Line


Released on: 2005-09-13
Drama, Music, Romance

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...