Directed by:
Siegfried KühnCinematography:
Peter ZiescheComposer:
Stefan CarowCast:
Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Michael Gwisdek, Blanche Kommerell, Harald Warmbrunn, Elfi Gäbel, Susanne Lüning, Falk Rockstroh, Ute Lubosch, Klaus Pönitz (more)Plots(1)
Maria Rheine and Mark Löwenthal, two young actors, are lovers. They work at a small German theater. But suddenly, in 1933, he gets the sack because he is a Jew. His only chance is to join the newly formed Jewish Theater in Berlin. Maria, however, is classified as "racially pure" and finds an open door everywhere. They lose sight of each other, their respective lives being miles apart. Yet at the premiere of "Joan of Arc", where Agnes enjoys overwhelming acclaim, a bouquet of flowers is left in her dressing room by Mark. He does not risk seeing her personally. It suddenly dawns on her how compromised her love - not least through her selfishness - has become. She is shocked and decides that she won't have people dictate to her again who she may love or not. She assumes a Jewish identity. She breaks with everything and everyone, lives as Manja Lowenthal at the side of Mark and she relinquishes her much-loved profession. In the face of precarious political events, she comes to realize the deadly consequences her decision has for both of them. But there is no breaking her resistance: she becomes a member of the Jewish Theater. (Progress Film-Verleih)
(more)Cast
Corinna Harfouch
East Germany
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Downfall (2004)
Berlin Calling (2008)
André Hennicke
East Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Michael Gwisdek
German Empire
Best movies:
No Place to Go (2000)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Herzlich willkommen (1990)
Blanche Kommerell
East Germany
Best movies:
Jakob the Liar (1974)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
Harald Warmbrunn
German Empire
Best movies:
The Captain (2017)
Solo Sunny (1980)
Der Lange Ritt zur Schule (1982)
Elfi Gäbel
Best movies:
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Susanne Lüning
Best movies:
Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Falk Rockstroh
East Germany
Best movies:
The Collini Case (2019)
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006) (TV movie)
Free Rainer (2007)
Ute Lubosch
East Germany
Best movies:
Run Lola Run (1998)
Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)
Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (series)
Klaus Pönitz
German Empire
Best movies:
Dornröschen (1971)
Eckhard Becker
Best movies:
Angel and the Badman (1947)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Reinhard Scheunemann
East Germany
Best movies:
No Place to Go (2000)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Christian Steyer
East Germany
Best movies:
Two Lives (2012)
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Three (2010)
Holger Franke
East Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (2004)
Tarragona - Ein Paradies in Flammen (2007) (TV movie)
Hans-Jürgen Müller-Hohensee
Best movies:
Goethe! (2010)
Dreileben (2011) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Gerd Staiger
Best movies:
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Moritz in the Advertising Column (1983)
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968)
Roman-Eckhard Galonska
Best movies:
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Jörg Steinberg
East Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Steffie Spira
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Man of Straw (1951)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Die Geschichte von der Gänseprinzessin und ihrem treuen Pferd Falada (1989)