Side Effects

Directed by Adolf Winkelmann
2007    3hDrama, Thriller
7.4
In 1960, lawyer Paul Wegener founded a law firm together with his friend and colleague Horst Bauer. Wegener's wife Vera is pregnant. One evening she has insomnia and takes a tablet of thalidomide, a popular sleeping pill that her doctor recommends as harmless. She gives birth to a child who is missing both arms and one leg.
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Cast of Side Effects
  • Benjamin SadlerPaul Wegener
  • Katharina WackernagelVera Wegener
  • Hans-Werner MeyerHorst Bauer
  • Caroline PetersHanne Bauer
  • Matthias BrandtDr. Henrik Spiess
  • Bernd StegemannHelmut Passlak
  • Jürgen SchornagelDr. Helsing
  • Peter FitzDr. Kessler
  • August ZirnerDr. Gerd Naumann
  • Sylvester GrothFeddersen
  • Dörte LyssewskiRuth Häffgens
  • Ernst StötznerDr. Lange
  • Stephan KampwirthGregor Karges
  • Laura TonkeFranziska Steiner
  • Irene RindjeSekretärin Frl. Carree
  • Claus Dieter ClausnitzerRichter
  • Rolf DennemannBauer Kampmann
  • Daniel DrewesArzt Kreissaal
  • Karl FischerDr. Eberhard
  • Rainer GoernemannDr. Schrader
  • Justine HauerHebamme #1
  • Jochen KolendaChefarzt
  • Olivia MagnaniGreta Bettanini
  • Denise MarkoKatrin #8-9 years
  • Bernd ReheuserLübars, Staatsanwalt
  • Dagmar SachseFrau Kampmann
  • Sybille J. SchedwillKindergartenleiterin
  • Caroline SchreiberLehrerin
  • Alexander StrobeleStaatssekretär
  • Frank VoßGahlen, Staatsanwalt
  • Axel WedekindAssessor Schlemmer
  • Sabine ZaluskowskiHebamme #2
  • André ReissigAnwalt
 
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