Ich werde nicht schweigen
2017, German. Directed by Esther Gronenborn.
TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...
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Cast & crew
- Esther GronenbornDirector
- Nadja UhlMargarete Oelckers
- Martin WuttkeWindhorst
- Rudolf KowalskiDr. Paul Ahrens
- Eleonore WeisgerberErna Trauernicht
- Katja FlintFrau Ahrens
- Marek HarloffDr. Gruner
- Matthias LierDr. Jürgensen
- Janina FautzAntje Eversen
- Barbara PhilippFrau Schröder
- Jens SchäferArnold Eversen
- Patrik GegaJochen Oelkers
- David BredinOtto
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- 8 September 2017
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- Germany
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Ich werde nicht schweigen (2017) was directed by Esther Gronenborn and stars Nadja Uhl, Martin Wuttke, Rudolf Kowalski.