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Solo für Martina (1980)

Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker in Altneukirchen in Vogtland. While Martina deals with problems of modern science and technology in her thesis, Jürgen is committed to the traditions of instrument making. This leads to friction and strains the relationship. And when Martina meets her former childhood friend Peter Struck in Altneukirchen, the center of musical instrument making in the GDR, who works here as a physicist at the research institute, jealousy also comes into play.

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Top billed cast

Ellen HellwigMartina Becker
Karl ThieleJürgen Mosler
Wolfgang GreeseKurt Mosler
Ostara Körner
Gabriele Heinz
Jürgen Zartmann
Hellena Büttner
Christian Steyer
Henny Müller
Rudolf Frickau

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