Sealed Lips

Antonia Berger, a young German and enthusiastic Communist, goes to the Soviet Union in the 1930s where she is accused of spying and sent to Vorkuta's labor camp. After 22 years in the gulag, she manages to return home, at that moment the new socialist East German state with her daughter Lydia. Antonia is forced by her party comrades to keep her terrible experiences secret for the common good. It is only after Stalin's death that she speaks out about her time in the Soviet Union. But her newly regained freedom is taken away from her again when her lover, a committed Communist, informs the authorities. She will see herself trapped between her present and the truth.

'Sealed Lips' is directed and signed by the german Bernd Böhlich ('History of an obsession') launches in Spain this February after its premiere in Germany and Austria in 2019. The film stars Alexandra Maria Lara ('The Sinking'), Robert Stadlober, Stefan Kurt ('Summer Storm'), Barbara Schnitzler ('Martin Luther'), Karoline Eichhorn ('Dark'), Carlotta von Falkenhayn ('Dark'), Stefan Weak Loc ('Heart Drop), Jenny Langner' ('The Old Man'), Hark Bohm ('In the Shade'), Peter Kurth ('Babylon Berlin'), Bernd Stegemann ('The Baader Meinhof Complex') and Jochen Nickel ('Schindler's List') among others.