Enchanting television series with the young Katja Riemann
Basically, this television series, which was broadcast on the German television station ZDF from January to March 1992, was the final starting signal for the phenomenal television and then film career of the great actress Katja Riemann.
Directed by Bernd Fischerauer and based on a novel by Utta Danella (screenplay: Barbara Piazza), EUROPEAN FILM AWARD nominee Katja Riemann (she was nominated for ROSENSTRASSE in 2003) played Regina Thorbeke, a refugee from Dresden to Munich who gets into complications . Soon the ambitious and hard-working Regina finds herself between two men: Martin Scholz (Mark Kuhn), who has just been released from Soviet captivity, and the Hungarian photographer Janos Janaday (Serge Avedikian).
A very sophisticated story was told here with a keen sense of the details of the time. It wasn't just about heartbreak, but also about political developments like the uprising in Hungary. Above all, Regina, played by Katja Riemann, wanted to take not only the steps of social advancement, but also the emancipatory development as a woman. As a viewer, you were given an impressive picture of the time when your own parents' generation was young. That certainly gave an idea of later quality series from HBO and others. German-language television (the Austrian television station ORF was also on board) could have continued like this. Unfortunately things turned out differently...
Roswitha Schreiner as Regina's good friend Stups deserves special mention from the extensive cast. Shortly afterwards, the "WICHERTS VON NEBENAN" star Roswitha Schreiner started as a crime scene detective in Düsseldorf alongside Martin Lüttge and Klaus J. Behrendt.
