Sternstunde ihres Lebens

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.

• Ulla ZiemannWriter
• Erica von MoellerDirector

• Anna Maria MüheIrma Lankwitz
• Iris BerbenElisabeth Selbert
• Lena StolzeFrieda Nadig
• Maja SchöneLore Mertens
• Eleonore WeisgerberHelene Wessel
• Petra WelterothHelene Weber
• Rudolf KowalskiAdam Selbert
• Walter SittlerAlbert Finck
• Max von ThunHeinrich Bode
• Felix VörtlerCarlo Schmid
• Klaus MikoleitTheodor Heuss
• Dietrich MattauschKonrad Adenauer