Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 12, 1978

Runtime

1h 18m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Frank Vogel

Description

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.