starring
Renate Schroeter Wigand Witting A season of outstanding television drama opens with a controversial German film. Due to an Act of God hit the headlines in Germany when the First Network found it too provocative to schedule: it was eventually shown on a regional network and sparked off a heated national debate.
1990. A tanker containing liquid gas collides with a transporter carrying nuclear waste outside a village in Saxony. As the emergency services seal off the area,
Dr Jorg Bensch tries desperately to break through the cordon to reach his 15-year-old son.
Written by HANS RÜDIGER MINOW Directed by RAINER BOLDT
(A West German film with English subtitles. First showing on British television)
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