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The Sonnenbrucks
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The Sonnenbrucks

1951-03-01 · 99 min · ★ 7.0

Drama

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

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Directors
Georg C. Klaren
Production companies
DEFA
Countries
East Germany
Status
Released

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Eduard von WintersteinProf. Walter Sonnenbruck
Maly DelschaftMaly DelschaftBertha Sonnenbruck
Ursula BurgUrsula BurgRuth Sonnenbruck
Raimund SchelcherRaimund SchelcherDozent Joachim Peters
Harry RiebauerHarry RiebauerStudent
Herbert KöferHerbert KöferChristian Föns
Käte AlvingAgnes Sörensen
Friedrich MaurerFriedrich MaurerTourterelle
Kurt MikulskiAnton
Hans-Georg RudolphMinisterialrat Behnke
Hans Joachim SchölermannRektor
Irene KorbIrene Korb
Aleksandra ŚląskaAleksandra Śląska
Horst PreuskerHorst Preusker
Aribert Grimmer
Rudolf Fleck
Albert Venohr
Helmuth Hinzelmann
Hans Rose
Hilde Sontag

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