Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

78 mins | Drama | Jan. 12, 1978

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.

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

78 mins | Drama | Jan. 12, 1978

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
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.
Producers DEFA
Original title Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
Directors Frank Vogel
Writers Günter Karl, Frank Vogel

Cast

Simone von Zglinicki

as Anneliese Weyher

Katja Paryla

as Martha Menzel

Dieter Franke

as Albert Neuenfeld

Peter Prager

as Kurt Danneberg

Helga Göring

as Edith Radicke

Peter Reusse

as Dieter Wollnick

Günter Rüger

as Parteisekretär