''The Fiancee'' () is a 1980 East German

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directed by

Günter Reisch Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter. He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from a ...

and Günther Rücker and based on a novel by Eva Lippold. The film is about the resistance of the communist Hella Lindau (

Jutta Wachowiak Jutta Wachowiak (born 13 December 1940) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1962. She starred in the 1986 film '' So Many Dreams'', which was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Fes ...

) and her fiancé Hermann Reimers (

Regimantas Adomaitis Regimantas Adomaitis (31 January 1937 – 20 June 2022) was a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He was also active in Russia and Germany. Career Adomaitis was born in Šiauliai. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Vilniu ...

) against the Nazis. The film won the Crystal Globe at the

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. It was also chosen as East Germany's official submission to the

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for

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, but did not manage to receive a nomination.

Cast

as Hella Lindau *

as Reimers *

Slávka Budínová Slávka Budínová (21 April 1924 – 31 July 2002) was a Czechoslovak film actress. She appeared in over 60 films and television shows between 1953 and 1999. Selected filmography * '' The Flood'' (1958) * '' Lidé z maringotek'' (1966) * ' ...

as Lola * Christine Gloger as Frenzel *

Inge Keller Inge Keller (15 December 1923 – 6 February 2017) was a German stage and film actress whose career on stage and screen spanned seventy years. She was one of the most prominent performers in the former German Democratic Republic. Thomas Langhoff ...

as Irene *

Käthe Reichel Käthe or Kathe is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), German actress *Käthe Gold (1907–1997), Austrian actress *Käthe Grasegger, later Deuschl (1917–2001), German alpine skier * Kathe Green (bo ...

as Olser * Hans-Joachim Hegewald as Hensch * Barbara Zinn as Elsie *

Katrin Saß Katrin Sass (, for a time Katrin Saß) is a German actress. She became known internationally for playing the idealistic socialist mother Christiane Kerner in the 2003 tragicomedy ''Good Bye, Lenin!'' Biography She was born in Schwerin, in th ...

as Barbara * Ewa Zietek as Hilde *

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as Naudorf

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