Plot Summary
Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Sternstunde ihres Lebens
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- de
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Cast
Anna Maria Mühe
Irma Lankwitz
Iris Berben
Elisabeth Selbert
Lena Stolze
Frieda Nadig
Maja Schöne
Lore Mertens
Eleonore Weisgerber
Helene Wessel
Petra Welteroth
Helene Weber
Rudolf Kowalski
Adam Selbert
Walter Sittler
Albert Finck
Max von Thun
Heinrich Bode
Felix Vörtler
Carlo Schmid
Klaus Mikoleit
Theodor Heuss
Dietrich Mattausch
Konrad Adenauer
Jochen Kolenda
Walter Strauss
Peter Harting
Herbert Wagner
Dagmar Sachse
Martha Wagner
Production Companies
ARD
