Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
Released: January 12, 1978Runtime: 78 minLanguage: DE
Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.
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Simone Von Zglinicki
as Anneliese Weyher
Katja Paryla
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Dieter Franke
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Peter Reusse
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Detlef Gie
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Peter Prager
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Michael Gerber
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Helga Goring
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Walter Lendrich
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Carl Heinz Choynski
as Heide
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