section A Journey Through Time

THE ACTRESS

  • Siegfried Kühn
  • DDR
  • 1988
  • 86 Min

Mark and Maria act in a provincial theatre. They love each other and yet have no future in Germany of the 1930s: while Mark, a Jew, is dismissed, Maria celebrates one success after the other. Any contact would endanger her career. Still Maria chooses Mark. She fakes her own suicide and follows her lover to a Jewish theatre under a pseudonym in this harrowing tale, far removed from any sense of melodrama.

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Credits

original title DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN

international title THE ACTRESS

german title DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN

JFBB section A Journey Through Time

  • director Siegfried Kühn

country/countries DDR

year 1988

duration 86 Min

screenplay Siegfried Kühn

director of photography Peter Ziesche

sound Klaus Heidemann

music Stefan Carow, Jimmie Cox

editing Brigitte Krex

production company DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

actor/s Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Michael Gwisdek, Blanche Kommerell, Jürgen Watzke, Martin Brandt, Edda Schwarzkop, Christian Steyer, Klaus Pönitz, Gerhard Meyer, Falk Rockstroh, Klaus Bieligk, Eckhard Becker, Gesine Laatz, Ute Lubosch, Susanne Lüning, Elfi Gäbel, Harald Warmbrunn, Werner Ehrlicher, Rolf Colditz, Steffie Spira