Directed by:
Evelyn SchmidtScreenplay:
Evelyn SchmidtCinematography:
Roland DresselComposer:
Peter RabenaltCast:
Heidemarie Schneider, Roman Kaminski, Heidrun Bartholomäus, Hilmar Baumann, Gisela Bestehorn, Gertrud Brendler, Johanna Clas, Birgit Edenharter (more)Plots(1)
Susanne is a single mother. As an unskilled labourer, she is on the lower end of the professional and social hierarchy, even in theoretically egalitarian East Germany. Her friends and acquaintances are all from the margins of society. She finds her job as a punch press operator burdensome and quits. As her money starts to dwindle, she sees a way out. Urged on by a friend, she reports her bicycle stolen and collects the insurance. But just as she seems to be doing better and enjoying a relationship with ambitious engineer Thomas, her fraud is discovered and she is threatened with prosecution. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Siegfried Seibt
German Empire
Best movies:
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1981)
Thomas Thieme
Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Downfall (2004)
Reinhard Straube
Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein Vater für Klette (2003) (TV movie)
Klaus-Rudolf Weber
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
The Elixirs of the Devil (1972)
Theresia Wider
German Empire
Best movies:
Die schwarze Mühle (1975) (TV movie)
Coming Out (1989)
The Legend of Rita (2000)
Ellen Weber
German Empire
Best movies:
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Burkhard Kurth
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Marie-Anne Fliegel
German Empire
Best movies:
The Reader (2008)
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) (TV movie)
This Is Love (2009)
Roland Hemmo
Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Impy's Wonderland (2008)