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Season 1
In 1938 the amateur pianist Ursula (Maria Furtwängler) married the singer Wolfgang (Pasquale Aleardi). The war tears the couple apart: while Ursula and two children struggle with her
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In 1938 the amateur pianist Ursula (Maria Furtwängler) married the singer Wolfgang (Pasquale Aleardi). The war tears the couple apart: while Ursula and two children struggle with her parents in Gdansk, her husband is condemned as a deserter. Thanks to tragic entanglements, the lovers consider each other dead at the end of the war. Only in 1957 does Ursula see her long-married Wolfgang again ... What sounds like the headbirth of a Schmonzettschreiber is based on facts: In the novel "Vom Glück just a shadow", Uwe-Karsten Heye reconstructed the life story of his mother, who died in 1992. Miguel Alexandre ("The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie") tells it as a saga of a pragmatic but indomitable survivor. The carefully arranged historical panorama from the Nazi era, the young GDR and the economic miracle FRG seems sometimes sensitive, sometimes hypothermic, but still moving.
The war is over and her husband Wolfgang is officially dead. The new rulers are also making life difficult for Ursula Heye (Maria Furtwängler) in Rostock. The liaison with the Greek
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The war is over and her husband Wolfgang is officially dead. The new rulers are also making life difficult for Ursula Heye (Maria Furtwängler) in Rostock. The liaison with the Greek translator Niklas (Merab Ninidze) ends tragically. When the political pressure increases in the newly founded GDR, Ursula dares to flee to the West with girlfriend Norah (Dorka Gryllus). A new beginning with a bitter punch line...
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