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The Actress
The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.
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Cast
Corinna HarfouchMaria Rheine
André HennickeMark Löwenthal
Michael GwisdekMario Montegasso
Blanche KommerellJudith Baumann- Jürgen WatzkeStengele
- Martin BrandtJaldas Großvater
- Gesine LaatzJalda
Falk RockstrohJupp- Edda SchwarzkopfMarks Mutter
Christian SteyerErnst Freund
Ute LuboschRosa
Steffie SpiraResolute Alte- Klaus PönitzIntendant
- Günter Rügerblinder Mann
Details
- Director
- Siegfried Kühn
- Writers
- Regine Kühn, Siegfried Kühn, Hedda Zinner
- Release date
- October 12, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Original language
- German
- Studios
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
