Risiko

Overview

On a West German Autobahn, Robert plummets from a bridge and is hospitalized. As he recovers, he flashes back to a Bulgarian holiday where he met Jutta and her uncle Lothar, who’d ordered a West German passport to smuggle her out of the DDR. Back home, Robert and Jutta marry and have a daughter, Anna, but Jutta still yearns for the West. Lothar arranges their escape: Robert, Jutta, and Anna hide in a car trunk, but delays doom Anna. At the border, a grief-stricken Jutta blames Robert; distraught, he leaps from the bridge, surviving to face his guilt. A film banned in the GDR.

Directed by Helmut Krätzig

Top cast

Udo Schenk

Robert

Marina Krogull

Jutta

Horst Drinda

Onkel Lothar Lehnacker

Otto Mellies

Jürgen Holzhäuser

Peter Reusse

Uli Schlehe

Regina Beyer

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