Based on the novel by Manfred Bieler. Originally produced by DEFA Productions in East Germany in 1965. Bonus material: Biographies and filmographies; Introductory essay; Photo gallery; Banned! (2005); from the Series Zeitzeugengespräche: Interview with director Kurt Maetzig (1999); Film interview with Hans Bentzien, former GDR Minister of Culture, on Censorship in 1965 (1993). Angelika Waller, Alfred Müller, Ilse Voigt, Wolfgang Winkler, Helmut Schellhardt.
Summary:
A 19-year-old East German girl named Maria Morzeck is denied university admission because her brother is in jail for political reasons. She later has an affair with the judge who passed the harsh sentence on her brother and eventually confronts him.
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