Released:
2014-05-21

Overview:
Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.

Director:
Erica von Moeller

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Anna Maria Mühe
  as
  Irma Lankwitz
• 
  Iris Berben
  as
  Elisabeth Selbert
• 
  Lena Stolze
  as
  Frieda Nadig
• 
  Maja Schöne
  as
  Lore Mertens
• 
  Eleonore Weisgerber
  as
  Helene Wessel