EPISODE
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident.
November 8, 1973 in Halle, German Democratic Republic
1965 in Trier, Germany
January 28, 1970 in Angermünde, East Germany [now Brandenburg, Germany]
9 September 1956, Schwerin, German Democratic Republic
1941 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
21 December 1965, Osnabrück, Germany
6 April 1940, Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
December 17, 1952 in Basel, Switzerland
1937
1982 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
September 19, 1963 in Helsinki, Finland
1957
February 13, 1963 in Pirna, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany]
1945 in Chemnitz, Germany
February 18, 1958 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
September 9, 1967 in Timisoara, Romania
June 18, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA
18 August 1954, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
1994, Romania
1973 in Barcelona, Spain
