The Actress
Die Schauspielerin (original)
The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.
Starring Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Michael Gwisdek, Blanche Kommerell, Jürgen Watzke, Martin Brandt, Gesine Laatz, Falk Rockstroh, Edda Schwarzkopf, Christian Steyer
Watch "The Actress" on Kanopy released in 1988. It's a comedy and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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