The Actress
7.3
The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.
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Cast
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Corinna Harfouch
Maria Rheine
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André Hennicke
Mark Löwenthal
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Siegfried Kühn Director · Regine Kühn Screenplay Hedda Zinner Author
First release July 9, 1988 · Produced in XG, Germany · Original title Die Schauspielerin
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
XG · Germany
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Languages
Original title
Die Schauspielerin
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
XC · July 9, 1988
Premiere
Germany · October 12, 1988
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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