Die Mutter und das Schweigen
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Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia. When a party courier is arrested in Berlin, Klara agrees to return to Germany with illegal material. On behalf of the central courier service, she returned to Germany illegally many times, risking her life, in constant fear of being caught. When the illegal party cell in a large Berlin factory is arrested, Klara distributes the latest issue of the Red Signal on her own. She wants to prove to the Gestapo that she has imprisoned the wrong people. Authentic story of a communist and mother who flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia in 1936.
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Cast
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Erika Dunkelmann
Klara Baumann
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Helga Göring
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Wolfgang Luderer
Michael Tschesno-Hell
Jutta Wachowiak
Lili Hermann
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Ursula Tschesno-Hell
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
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Günter Junghans
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Ruth Kommerell
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Günter Rüger
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Wolfgang Luderer Director
First release November 21, 1965 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
Production
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production
XG · Germany
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Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · November 21, 1965
TV · (East Germany)
Germany · March 4, 1966
Theatrical · (East Germany)
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
May 25, 1967 · theatrical release
Russia
October 3, 1966 · Theatrical
October 6, 1969 · TV
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