The Airlift

Directed by Dror Zahavi
27 november 2005    3hDrama, Romantik,
6.1
Two-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must survive as a single mother of a 12-year-old boy in post-war Berlin. At the beginning of the Soviet Blockade in 1948, she waitresses at the Tempelhof Airport and gets to know General William Turner, one of the most influential aides of General Clay to organize the American airlifts. Luise becomes his personal secretary and falls in love with him, but suddenly Axel returns.

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  • Heino FerchGeneral Philipp Turner
  • Bettina ZimmermannLuise Kielberg
  • Ulrich TukurGeneral Lucius Dubignon Clay Jr.
  • Ulrich NoethenDr. Alex Kielberg
  • Mišel MatičevićJack
  • Leo NatalisMichael Kielberg
  • Katharina WackernagelLeni
  • Henning BaumHarry
  • Michael GwisdekHerbert Prenske
  • Burghart KlaußnerErnst Reuter
  • Dror ZahaviRegisör
  • Martin RauhausFörfattare
  • Nico HofmannProducent
  • Ariane KrampeProducent
  • Fritz BusseEditor
  • Oliver GuniaMusic Producer
  • Paul Vincent GuniaMusic Producer
  • Anette KraskaProducer's Assistant
  • Oliver LüerLinjeproducent
  • Simone BärCasting Director

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