Eine Handvoll Hoffnung (1978)
Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.
Director: Frank Vogel
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Simone von Zglinicki as Anneliese Weyher |
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Katja Paryla as Martha Menzel |
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Dieter Franke as Albert Neuenfeld |
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Peter Prager as Kurt Danneberg |
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Helga Göring as Edith Radicke |
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Peter Reusse as Dieter Wollnick |
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Günter Rüger as Parteisekretär |
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Detlef Gieß as |
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Michael Gerber as |
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Walter Lendrich as |
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Carl Heinz Choynski as |
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Christoph Engel as |
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Rainer Doering as |
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Peter Kalisch as |
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Annelise Matschulat as |
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Jörg Panknin as |
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Norbert Stöß as |
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Carola Braunbock as |
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Angela Brunner as |
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Jürgen Huth as |
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Hans Klering as |
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Peter Köhncke as |
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Evamaria Bath as |
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Karin Beewen as |
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Frank Wuttig as |
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Wilfried Pucher as |
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Christa Löser as |
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Klaus Ebeling as |
| Directing | Frank Vogel | Director |
| Writing | Frank Vogel | Writer |
| Writing | Günter Karl | Writer |
| Crew | Otto Hanisch | Cinematography |
| Editing | Evelyn Carow | Editor |
| Sound | Günther Fischer | Music |