Ich werde nicht schweigen

Ich werde nicht schweigen (2017)

HistoryDrama

TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...

Director: Esther Gronenborn

Casts

	Nadja Uhl as Margarete Oelckers
	Martin Wuttke as Windhorst
	Rudolf Kowalski as Dr. Paul Ahrens
	Eleonore Weisgerber as Erna Trauernicht
	Katja Flint as Frau Ahrens
	Marek Harloff as Dr. Gruner
	Matthias Lier as Dr. Jürgensen
	Janina Fautz as Antje Eversen
	Barbara Philipp as Frau Schröder
	Jens Schäfer as Arnold Eversen
	Patrik Gega as Jochen Oelkers
	David Bredin as Otto
	Jan Šeba as Karl Oelkers
	Petra Zieser as Erna

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