Die Mutter und das Schweigen

Die Mutter und das Schweigen (1966)

Drama

Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia. When a party courier is arrested in Berlin, Klara agrees to return to Germany with illegal material. On behalf of the central courier service, she returned to Germany illegally many times, risking her life, in constant fear of being caught. When the illegal party cell in a large Berlin factory is arrested, Klara distributes the latest issue of the Red Signal on her own. She wants to prove to the Gestapo that she has imprisoned the wrong people. Authentic story of a communist and mother who flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia in 1936.

Director: Wolfgang Luderer

Casts

	Erika Dunkelmann as Klara Baumann
	Helga Göring as Else Ackerknecht
	Jutta Wachowiak as Lili Hermann
	Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Ackerknecht
	Günter Junghans as Gefangener
	Frank Michelis as Portier
	Ruth Kommerell as Milchverkäuferin
	Günter Rüger as Sekretär des Kommissars
	Traute Sense as Reisende
	Ruth-Maria Kemper as
	Angela Brunner as
	Wilfried Ortmann as
	Günter Naumann as
	Willi Narloch as

Crew