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The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

5.6 88 mins Drama   1978
WDR   Neue Bioskop Film  
Director(s): Margarethe von Trotta

Release Date: 14 Fri, Apr 1978

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They try Ingrid, Christa's friend, who tries to help, but the school rejects the money. When tragedy strikes Werner, Hans helps Christa bolt to a collective in Portugal. Ingrid visits her; their relationship makes the collective nervous, so she returns to Germany and ceases living in hiding. The police are still looking for her and so is a witness to the robbery, Lena, a bank clerk. Lena's interest brings Christa's second awakening.

Casts of The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

Tina Engel

as Christa Klages

Silvia Reize

as Ingrid Häkele

Katharina Thalbach

as Lena Seidlhofer

Marius Müller-Westernhagen

as Werner Wiedemann

Peter Schneider

as Hans Grawe

Ulrich von Dobschütz

as Heinz, Ingrid's husband

Erika Wackernagel

as Mother of Hans

Friedrich Kaiser

as Wolfgang

Achim Krausz

as Bank director

Fritz Ley

as Old man from Riga

Gertrud Thomele

as Mother of Christa

Rosa Sämmer

as Caretaker

Margit Czenki

as Reingard, kindergarten teacher

Hildegard Linden

as Woman on the Train

Josef Bierbichler

as Homeowner (uncredited)

Felix Moeller

as Boy on the Train (uncredited)

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