
01 Feb 1955

Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.

Piet Hatzky

Alex Niemann

Tom Hatzky

Tobias Wallraff

Mirco

Harald Niemann
Nachbarin
Gerlinde
Marlies Ruttger

Leonore Gallwitz

01 Feb 1955

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

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