Sternstunde ihres Lebens

Sternstunde ihres Lebens

90 mins | Drama, History | May 21, 2014

Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.

Sternstunde ihres Lebens

90 mins | Drama, History | May 21, 2014

Sternstunde ihres Lebens
Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.
Producers ARD, Thevissen Filmproduktion
Original title Sternstunde ihres Lebens
Directors Erica von Moeller
Writers Ulla Ziemann

Cast

Anna Maria Mühe

as Irma Lankwitz

Iris Berben

as Elisabeth Selbert

Lena Stolze

as Frieda Nadig

Maja Schöne

as Lore Mertens

Eleonore Weisgerber

as Helene Wessel

Petra Welteroth

as Helene Weber

Rudolf Kowalski

as Adam Selbert

Walter Sittler

as Albert Finck

Max von Thun

as Heinrich Bode

Felix Vörtler

as Carlo Schmid

Klaus Mikoleit

as Theodor Heuss

Dietrich Mattausch

as Konrad Adenauer

Jochen Kolenda

as Walter Strauss

Peter Harting

as Herbert Wagner

Dagmar Sachse

as Martha Wagner