01 Dec 1948
Germany, Year Zero
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
Angels of Iron
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
Top Billed Cast
Hilmar Thate Gustav Völpel
Katharina Thalbach Lisa Gabler
Ulrich Wesselmann Gladow
Ilse Pagé Frau Gerti Völpel
Karin Baal Frau Lucie Gladow
Peter Brombacher Schäfer
Klaus Pohl Gabler
Hanns Zischler Ridzinski
Horst Laube Herr Gladow
Kurt Raab Chauffeur
Michael Danisch Karl-Heinz Grewe Urs Hefti Hermann Killmeyer 
Werner Lustig Jo Bolling Frank Schendler Horst Schultheis 
Anna Thalbach Peter Mühlenhaupt
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