Ewa and Stefan Hauser, with their children Monika and Wolf, live an average middle-class life in East Berlin in 1969. Under Stasi blackmail, Stefan is coerced into cooperation, prompting the family’s escape attempt to West Berlin. The plan fails: the couple is imprisoned for four years, the children adopted by separate families. After early release and permission to relocate west, the Hausers spend decades fruitlessly searching for their lost children, only to be reunited twenty years later amid Europe’s political upheavals.
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Cast
Joanna Benda
Monika Hauser vel Janka Bednarek
Rafał Królikowski
Wolf Hauser vel Karl Klepacz, brat Moniki-Janki
Małgorzata Pieczyńska
Ewa Hauser, matka Moniki i Wolfa
Bronisław Wrocławski
Stefan Hauser, ojciec Moniki i Wolfa
Zbigniew Bielski
Miller, "adwokat" Hauserów
Jerzy Braszka
dziennikarz "Der Spiegel" poszukujący dzieci Hauserów
Paweł Nowisz
Marian Bednarek, polski dostojnik partyjny
Anna Grzeszczak
Emilia Bednarek, przybrana matka Janki
Hanna Molenda
dyrektorka niemieckiego domu dziecka
Ludmiła Warzecha
wychowawczyni w polskim domu dziecka
Antoni Królikowski
mały Wolf Hauser
Alicja Krawczyk
Klepaczowa, adoptująca małego Wolfa
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