Film

Die Mutter und das Schweigen

1966 · 2h 46m · Drama

IMDb

8.6

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.

Erika Dunkelmann

Klara Baumann

Helga Göring

Else Ackerknecht

Jutta Wachowiak

Lili Hermann

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Ackerknecht

Günter Junghans

Gefangener

Frank Michelis

Portier

Ruth Kommerell

Milchverkäuferin

Günter Rüger

Sekretär des Kommissars

Traute Sense

Reisende

Ruth-Maria Kemper

Angela Brunner

Wilfried Ortmann

Günter Naumann

Willi Narloch

• Wolfgang LudererDirector

Release date

March 4, 1966

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

2h 46m

Genres

Drama