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Ich werde nicht schweigen (2017)
Directed by Esther Gronenborn
History, Drama
TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...
Cast
Nadja Uhl
Margarete Oelckers
Martin Wuttke
Windhorst
Rudolf Kowalski
Dr. Paul Ahrens
Eleonore Weisgerber
Erna Trauernicht
Katja Flint
Frau Ahrens
Marek Harloff
Dr. Gruner
Matthias Lier
Dr. Jürgensen
Janina Fautz
Antje Eversen
Barbara Philipp
Frau Schröder
Jens Schäfer
Arnold Eversen
David Bredin
Otto
Crew
- Director
- Esther Gronenborn
- Director of Photography
- Birgit Guðjónsdóttir
- Producer
- Kerstin Ramcke
Details
- Release date
- 2017-09-08
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Nordfilm, ZDF