Ich werde nicht schweigen
Ich werde nicht schweigen
TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...
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Jens Schäfer
as Arnold Eversen
David Bredin
as Otto
Petra Zieser
as Erna
Nadja Uhl
as Margarete Oelckers
Rudolf Kowalski
as Dr. Paul Ahrens
Eleonore Weisgerber
as Erna Trauernicht
Katja Flint
as Frau Ahrens
Marek Harloff
as Dr. Gruner
Matthias Lier
as Dr. Jürgensen
Janina Fautz
as Antje Eversen
Martin Wuttke
as Windhorst
Barbara Philipp
as Frau Schröder
