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The Promise

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Original title

Das Versprechen (La Promesse)

Year

1994

Running time

119 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Screenwriter

Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Schneider, Felice Laudadio

Cast

Music

Jürgen Knieper

Cinematography

Franz Rath

Producer

Co-production Germany-France;

Bioskop Film, Odessa Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Canal+, CNC, Les Productions JMH

Genre

Drama. Romance

Synopsis

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.

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The Promise

1994

Margarethe von Trotta

6.2

(111)