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.
1982 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
June 18, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA
August 27, 1971 in Graz, Styria, Austria
February 18, 1958 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
November 27, 1969 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic
1953, Drieberg, German Democratic Republic
1945 in Chemnitz, Germany
January 28, 1970 in Angermünde, East Germany [now Brandenburg, Germany]
1937
18 August 1954, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
1957
1965 in Trier, Germany
6 April 1940, Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
1994, Romania
September 19, 1963 in Helsinki, Finland
10 June 1965, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2 December 1962, Anderlecht, Belgium
November 8, 1973 in Halle, German Democratic Republic
9 September 1956, Schwerin, German Democratic Republic
December 17, 1952 in Basel, Switzerland
July 1, 1956 in Gransee, German Democratic Republic
October 9, 1967 in Berlin, Germany
21 December 1965, Osnabrück, Germany
September 9, 1967 in Timisoara, Romania
February 13, 1963 in Pirna, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany]
November 1, 1960 in Altentreptow, German Democratic Republic
1941 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
26 February 1993, Erfurt, Germany
1973 in Barcelona, Spain
