The Promise [105045] Released: 1995-02-16 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 115 mins Popularity: 0.3555 Vote Average: 6.5 Vote Count: 15 Overview: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration. Cast [25] Meret BeckerSophie I Corinna HarfouchSophie II Anian ZollnerKonrad I August ZirnerKonrad II Eva MattesBarbara II Hark BohmMüller II Otto SanderProfessor Lorenz Ulrike KrumbiegelElisabeth Pierre BessonHarald I Tina EngelSophies Tante Dieter MannKonrad's Vater Simone von ZglinickiKonrad's Mutter Wolfgang WinklerStasi Christina Große Susanne UgéBarbara I Hans KremerHarald II Ruth GlössKonrad's grandmo Jean-Yves GautierGérard Monika HansenSophie's Mother Klaus PiontekSophie's Stepfat Heiko SenstWolfgang Anka BaierMonika Sven LehmannMax Philippe Morier-GenoudRubländer Udo KroschwaldMüller I Trailers