Based on a true story from 1936: Klara Baumann, a working-class woman, communist and mother, flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia. When a party courier is arrested in Berlin, Klara agrees to return to Germany with illegal material. On behalf of the central courier service, she returned to Germany illegally many times, risking her life, in constant fear of being caught. When the illegal party cell in a large Berlin factory is arrested, Klara distributes the latest issue of the Red Signal on her own. She wants to prove to the Gestapo that she has imprisoned the wrong people. Authentic story of a communist and mother who flees her German homeland for neighboring Czechoslovakia in 1936.
Directed by Wolfgang Luderer
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Cast
Erika Dunkelmann
Klara Baumann
Helga Göring
Else Ackerknecht
Jutta Wachowiak
Lili Hermann
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Ackerknecht
Günter Junghans
Gefangener
Frank Michelis
Portier
Ruth Kommerell
Milchverkäuferin
Günter Rüger
Sekretär des Kommissars
Traute Sense
Reisende
Ruth-Maria Kemper
Angela Brunner
Wilfried Ortmann
Günter Naumann
Willi Narloch
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