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The Promise

Movie
1995
1h 55m
German
Drama, Romance
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
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Meret Becker
Sophie I
August Zirner
Konrad II
Eva Mattes
Barbara II
Hark Bohm
Müller II
Otto Sander
Professor Lorenz
Tina Engel
Sophies Tante
Dieter Mann
Konrad's Vater
Simone von Zglinicki
Konrad's Mutter
Susanne Ug
Barbara I
Hans Kremer
Harald II
Ruth Glss
Konrad's grandmother
Monika Hansen
Sophie's Mother
Klaus Piontek
Sophie's Stepfather
Heiko Senst
Wolfgang
Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

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