Eine Handvoll Hoffnung
1978, German. Directed by Frank Vogel.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Frank VogelDirector
- Simone von ZglinickiAnneliese Weyher
- Katja ParylaMartha Menzel
- Dieter FrankeAlbert Neuenfeld
- Peter PragerKurt Danneberg
- Helga GöringEdith Radicke
- Peter ReusseDieter Wollnick
- Günter RügerParteisekretär
- Detlef GießCast
- Michael GerberCast
- Walter LendrichCast
- Carl Heinz ChoynskiCast
- Christoph EngelCast
Details
- Released
- 12 January 1978
- Country
- Germany, East Germany
- Written by
- Frank Vogel, Günter Karl
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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung runs 78 minutes (1h 18m).
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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 12 January 1978. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Eine Handvoll Hoffnung?
Eine Handvoll Hoffnung (1978) was directed by Frank Vogel and stars Simone von Zglinicki, Katja Paryla, Dieter Franke.