Berlin Airlift

Overview

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.

Cast

Heino Ferch

General Philipp Turner

Bettina Zimmermann

Luise Kielberg

Ulrich Tukur

General Lucius Dubignon Clay Jr.

Ulrich Noethen

Dr. Alex Kielberg

Mišel Matičević

Jack

N/A

Leo Natalis

Michael Kielberg

Katharina Wackernagel

Leni

Henning Baum

Harry

Michael Gwisdek

Herbert Prenske

Burghart Klaußner

Ernst Reuter