Bürgschaft für ein Jahr

• Katrin Sass: Nina core
• Monika Lennartz: Irmgard Behrend
• Jaecki Black: Peter Müller
• January Spitzer: Werner Horn
• Christian Steyer: Heiner Menk
• Heide Kipp: Mrs Brown
• Barbara Dittus: Home Director
• Ursula Werner: Mrs. Muller
• Angelika Mann: Renate
• Solveig Müller: Jugendfürsorgerin
• Gabriele Methner: Fränzi
• Dieter Montag: core
• Heinz Behrens: Mr. Brown
• Uwe Kockisch: Dieter
• Werner Tietze: Chairman Youth Committee
• Peter Bause: home manager
• Trude Brentina: Woman Krampe
• Gerd Michael Henneberg: Dr. Heinemann
• Dieter Knust: usher
• Michael May: Young man
• Werner Kanitz: Man in pub
• Heidemarie Schneider: Young Woman
• Bernd Stegemann: Clique Member
• Marie Gruber: Clique Member
• Willi Scholz: Director School of Music

Guarantee for one year is the DEFA Studio for Feature Films produced film. In 1981 the director Herrmann Zschoche filmed the novel by Tine Schulze- Gerlach. Had its premiere the film in the GDR on 17 September 1981, in the Federal Republic of Germany in February 1982 at the International Film Festival in Berlin.

Action

Since her divorce three years ago, Nina core is no longer clear with her life. You will not have a regular work more after, spending the nights with celebrations and Zechtouren and neglected their children Jacqueline, René and Mireille. The young, single mother wants her three children to be a good mother and lead a regular life, but that she can not manage. Two of the children are already disturbed. The youth services cut her custody and the children come, by injunction, in a children's home.

Nina wants to try with the help of friends, neighbors and colleagues to bring their situation and their lives back in order. She begins to fight for their children.

On their own initiative her for two guarantors, the civil engineer Peter Müller and the music teacher Irmgard Behrend be set aside. They should ensure that Nina proved successful. You reach that Nina's youngest child Mireille trial must live with the mother first again.

After a subsequent unfortunate and failed love story they can briefly escape back into the alcohol, Nina becomes clear with the help of Irmgard Behrend, that she finally has to take responsibility for their lives and their children.

Nina finds with their guarantors a compromise that gives her eldest daughter Jaqueline for adoption and trying to be for René and Mireille henceforth a responsible mother.

Criticism

• " A raw and intense film with a great Katrin Sass. " (Progress movie rental )
• " The veracity of this film is a credit to the director. Zschoche not trivialized human problems, but he gets just as little to the blind zeal. The narrative perspective is that of an objective, albeit sympathetic observer. " ( Henryk Goldberg, " New Germany ", September 20, 1981)
• " Herrmann Zschoche staged. Without all whitewash his new film is sober, sobering, uncomfortable for anyone with and thinks ahead. " ( Günter Sobe, " Berliner Zeitung ", September 29, 1981)

Awards

• International Film Festival 1982: Silver Bear for Best Actress Katrin Sass
• German Film and Media Review (FBW ): predicate Valuable
• Price of the OCIC (International Catholic film office )