Overview

Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.

Top Cast

Anna Maria Mühe

Irma Lankwitz

Iris Berben

Elisabeth Selbert

Lena Stolze

Frieda Nadig

Maja Schöne

Lore Mertens

Eleonore Weisgerber

Helene Wessel

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Petra Welteroth

Helene Weber

Rudolf Kowalski

Adam Selbert

Walter Sittler

Albert Finck

Max von Thun

Heinrich Bode

Felix Vörtler

Carlo Schmid

Klaus Mikoleit

Theodor Heuss

Dietrich Mattausch

Konrad Adenauer