Directed by:
Roland GräfScreenplay:
Roland GräfCinematography:
Claus NeumannComposer:
Günther FischerCast:
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marianne Wünscher, Leoš Suchařípa, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Rolf Hoppe, Karin Gregorek, Günter Schubert, Simone von Zglinicki (more)Plots(1)
Schmith, a doctor at a GDR clinic, develops a therapy which could improve premature babies' chances of survival. When the head of the clinic turns down his project Schmith decides to continue his work in the Federal Republic and approaches agents to help him escape. But then, his project is approved after all. The medic begins to waver – but the agents press-gang him into leaving the GDR ... (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Armin Mueller-Stahl
German Empire
Best movies:
The Game (1997)
Night on Earth (1991)
Shine (1996)
Marianne Wünscher
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Buschgespenst (1986) (TV movie)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Leoš Suchařípa
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Larks on a String (1969)
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
German Empire
Best movies:
Zbabělec (1961)
Jahrgang 21 (1957)
The Assassination at Sarajevo (1975)
Rolf Hoppe
German Empire
Best movies:
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Mephisto (1981)
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Karin Gregorek
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck (1981) (TV movie)
23 (1998)
Verbotene Liebe (1989)
Günter Schubert
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Lange Ritt zur Schule (1982)
Goya, ili tyazhkiy put poznaniya (1971)
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968)
Simone von Zglinicki
East Germany
Best movies:
Wolfsburg (2003)
Hans Röckle und der Teufel (1974)
The Promise (1995)
Volkmar Kleinert
German Empire
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
Das Große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck (1981) (TV movie)
Hasenherz (1987)
Jenny Gröllmann
Germany
Best movies:
Das Buschgespenst (1986) (TV movie)
I Was Nineteen (1968)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Werner Brehm
Best movies:
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Tatort (1970) (series)
German Fried Movie (1992)
Carl Heinz Choynski
USA
Best movies:
The Silent Revolution (2018)
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
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Walter Lendrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck (1981) (TV movie)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Dr. Schlüter (1965) (series)
Johanna Clas
German Empire
Best movies:
Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988)
Horst Lebinsky
German Empire
Best movies:
Sun Alley (1999)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Winfried Glatzeder
Poland
Best movies:
Le Havre (2011)
Sun Alley (1999)
Didi - Der Doppelgänger (1984)
Trude Bechmann
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Hans Feldner
Best movies:
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Heinz Hupfer
German Empire