Released:
1988-10-12

Overview:
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.

Director:
Siegfried Kühn

Runtime:
1h 27min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Corinna Harfouch
  as
  Maria Rheine
• 
  André Hennicke
  as
  Mark Löwenthal
• 
  Michael Gwisdek
  as
  Mario Montegasso
• 
  Blanche Kommerell
  as
  Judith Baumann
• 
  Jürgen Watzke
  as
  Stengele