Eine Handvoll Hoffnung 46 years old

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.

Credits

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung Cast

Name Character
Helga Göring She was 55, 88 years old when she died as Edith Radicke
Katja Paryla She was 37, 73 years old when she died as Martha Menzel
Angela Brunner She was 47, 80 years old when she died
Peter Reusse He was 36, now 83 years old as Dieter Wollnick
Peter Prager He was 25, now 72 years old as Kurt Danneberg
Christoph Engel He was 52, 86 years old when he died
Christa Löser She was 51, 86 years old when she died
Simone von Zglinicki She was 26, now 72 years old as Anneliese Weyher
Detlef Gieß He was 27, now 73 years old
Carl Heinz Choynski He was 41, now 87 years old
Carola Braunbock She was 54, 54 years old when she died
Walter Lendrich He was 65, 87 years old when he died
Hans Klering He was 71, 81 years old when he died
Peter Köhncke He was 42, now 88 years old
Michael Gerber He was 8, now 54 years old
Günter Rüger He was 51, 88 years old when he died as Parteisekretär

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung Crew

Name Department
Günter Karl as Writer. Writing
Otto Hanisch as Cinematography. He was 51 (now 97) years old Crew
Evelyn Carow as Editor. She was 46 (now 92) years old Editing
Frank Vogel as Director. He was 4 (25) years old when He died Directing
Frank Vogel as Writer. He was 4 (25) years old when He died Writing
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Eine Handvoll Hoffnung (46 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, January 12, 1978
  • Runtime: 78 minutes