The Fiancee (film)

The Fiancee
Film poster
Directed by	Günter Reisch Günther Rücker
Written by	Eva Lippold Günter Reisch Günther Rücker
Starring	Jutta Wachowiak
Cinematography	Jürgen Brauer
Distributed by	DEFA
Release date	5 September 1980 (1980-09-05)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	East Germany
Language	German

The Fiancee (German: Die Verlobte) is a 1980 East German drama film directed by Günter Reisch and Günther Rücker and based on a novel by Eva Lippold. The film is about the resistance of the communist Hella Lindau (Jutta Wachowiak) and her fiancé Hermann Reimers (Regimantas Adomaitis) against the Nazis.

The film won the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It was also chosen as East Germany's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.

Cast

• Jutta Wachowiak as Hella Lindau
• Regimantas Adomaitis as Reimers
• Slávka Budínová as Lola
• Christine Gloger as Frenzel
• Inge Keller as Irene
• Käthe Reichel as Olser
• Hans-Joachim Hegewald as Hensch
• Barbara Zinn as Elsie
• Katrin Saß as Barbara
• Ewa Zietek as Hilde
• Ursula Braun as Naudorf

See also

• List of submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• The Fiancee at IMDb
• The Fiancee at Filmportal.de
• The Fiancee on the DEFA-Stiftung web site (in German)