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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment
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Vera – The Hard Way to Enlightenment

Jan 29, 1989
4h 4m
★ 8.0

Overview

The story of Vera Lenz, a young and very attractive woman who is the daughter of a pastor and comes from a small coastal village on the North Sea (FRG). She is intelligent, determined, but also hungry for adventure, and she fascinates the world of men. She has developed into an accomplished secretary with excellent foreign language skills - predestined for an international career. Her meeting with Colonel Shelvin paves the way for this: Vera is able to take up a position at NATO headquarters in Brussels and, thanks to her achievements, she travels to many countries and meets countless interesting people.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

DEFA
Fernsehen der DDR

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Cast

Jolanta Nowak

Vera Lenz

Jolanta Nowak

Jan Nowicki

Frederic Shelvin

Jan Nowicki

Marylu Poolman

Frau Lenz

Marylu Poolman

Peter Sodann

US-General Rathers

Peter Sodann

Harald Engelmann

Hauptmann Scholz

Harald Engelmann

Heinz-Dieter Knaup

Oberst von Wedel

Heinz-Dieter Knaup

Jan Pawlowski

Lord Cavendish

Jan Pawlowski

Joachim Pape

General

Joachim Pape

Leon Niemczyk

Leon Niemczyk

Donatas Banionis

Donatas Banionis

Marion van de Kamp

Marion van de Kamp

Ernst Heise

Ernst Heise

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