Directed by:
Evelyn SchmidtScreenplay:
Evelyn SchmidtCinematography:
Roland DresselComposer:
Peter RabenaltCast:
Heidemarie Schneider, Roman Kaminski, Heidrun Bartholomäus, Hilmar Baumann, Gisela Bestehorn, Gertrud Brendler, Johanna Clas, Birgit Edenharter (more)Plots(1)
Susanne is a single mother. As an unskilled labourer, she is on the lower end of the professional and social hierarchy, even in theoretically egalitarian East Germany. Her friends and acquaintances are all from the margins of society. She finds her job as a punch press operator burdensome and quits. As her money starts to dwindle, she sees a way out. Urged on by a friend, she reports her bicycle stolen and collects the insurance. But just as she seems to be doing better and enjoying a relationship with ambitious engineer Thomas, her fraud is discovered and she is threatened with prosecution. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Heidemarie Schneider
German Empire
Best movies:
Pappa ante Portas (1991)
Eolomea (1972)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Roman Kaminski
East Germany
Best movies:
Automärchen (1983)
Dornröschen erwacht (2006) (TV movie)
Heidrun Bartholomäus
East Germany
Best movies:
The Tunnel (2001)
Happy As One (2006)
Three (2010)
Hilmar Baumann
German Empire
Best movies:
Seven Freckles (1978)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Gisela Bestehorn
German Empire
Best movies:
Aber Doktor (1979) (TV movie)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968)
Gertrud Brendler
German Empire
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Johanna Clas
German Empire
Best movies:
Bear Ye One Another's Burden (1988)
Birgit Edenharter
West Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Christine Harbort
Germany
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
No Place to Go (2000)
The Tunnel (2001)
Peter Herden
German Empire
Best movies:
Der geteilte Himmel (1964)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Sechse kommen durch die Welt (1972)
Anita Herbst
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Das Licht der Liebe (1991)
Horst Lebinsky
German Empire
Best movies:
Sun Alley (1999)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Franziska Kleinert
Best movies:
Not All Were Murderers (2006) (TV movie)
Renée Kubsch
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Walter Lendrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck (1981) (TV movie)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Dr. Schlüter (1965) (series)
Andrea Meissner
East Germany
Best movies:
The Architects (1990)
Klaus Mertens
German Empire
Best movies:
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Arnim Mühlstädt
German Empire
Best movies:
Firstborn (1984)
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Angelika Perdelwitz
East Germany
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Zwei Millionen suchen einen Vater (2006) (TV movie)