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3 November 1995 (USA)
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Tagline:
Eine Liebe, eine Hoffnung, eine Mauer.
Plot:
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany...
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this movie doesn't break its promise of being great
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Meret Becker | ... | Sophie I |
| Corinna Harfouch | ... | Sophie II |
| Anian Zollner | ... | Konrad I |
| August Zirner | ... | Konrad II |
| Susanne Ugé | ... | Barbara I |
| Eva Mattes | ... | Barbara II |
 | Pierre Besson | ... | Harald I |
| Hans Kremer | ... | Harald II |
| Dieter Mann | ... | Konrad's Father |
| Simone von Zglinicki | ... | Konrad's mother (as Simone von Zglienicki) |
| Ruth Glöss | ... | Konrad's grandmother |
| Christian Herschmann | ... | Alexander (12 years) |
| Joerg Meister | ... | Alexander - 20 years (as Jörg Meister) |
| Jean-Yves Gautier | ... | Gérard |
| Ulrike Krumbiegel | ... | Elisabeth |
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Rated R for a scene of sex, and for language.
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Argentina:115 min | Germany:115 min | UK:116 min
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Australia:M |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
Germany:6 (bw) |
Peru:14 |
Spain:7 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Outrage is quantitative. It gets used up.
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Featured in In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)
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Portraying several friends separated by the Berlin Wall, "Das Versprechen" - called "The Promise" in English - hits you right where it hurts. I thought that it was very interesting how the movie picks up about every ten years, showing the historical context each time (specifically the sign saying "Victory to the Vietnamese Revolution" in 1968, during Prague Spring). To my generation, the Berlin Wall remains part of history (I was only five when it fell), so we have to rely on movies like this to understand the whole thing. All in all, director Margarethe von Trotta did a very good job here, as did the whole cast. Definitely worth seeing.