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Die Mutter und das Schweigen

7.0 166 mins Drama   1966
Fernsehen der DDR  
Director(s): Wolfgang Luderer

Release Date: 04 Fri, Mar 1966

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia. When a party courier is arrested in Berlin, Klara agrees to return to Germany with illegal material. On behalf of the central courier service, she returned to Germany illegally many times, risking her life, in constant fear of being caught. When the illegal party cell in a large Berlin factory is arrested, Klara distributes the latest issue of the Red Signal on her own. She wants to prove to the Gestapo that she has imprisoned the wrong people. Authentic story of a communist and mother who flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia in 1936.

Casts of Die Mutter und das Schweigen

Erika Dunkelmann

as Klara Baumann

Helga Göring

as Else Ackerknecht

Jutta Wachowiak

as Lili Hermann

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

as Ackerknecht

Günter Junghans

as Gefangener

Frank Michelis

as Portier

Ruth Kommerell

as Milchverkäuferin

Günter Rüger

as Sekretär des Kommissars

Traute Sense

as Reisende

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