Girls in Trouble

Nine stories of female protagonists are used to address the discussion surrounding paragraph 218 of the Criminal Code on abortion and to question it in the context of the sexual revolution.^[3] According to the then version of Section 218 of the Criminal Code, "a woman who kills her unborn child or allows it to be killed by another person" was punished with imprisonment of up to five years.^[4]

One setting involves a criminal trial against a desperate girl who has fallen into the hands of an abortionist. A flashback shows Miss Breuer's story. After finding a job in a Munich laundromat, Klaus twice rescues her from drunks. When she finally becomes pregnant with his child, she seeks out a quack who performs the abortion on the kitchen table. When the girl collapses at home, her landlady calls a doctor.

Thirteen-year-old Gabi is raped by two boys. When her doctor tells her that Section 218 of the German Criminal Code prohibits him from performing an abortion, she travels to Sweden.

In another scenario, the mayor's daughter is denied the pill and barely survives the subsequent abortion.

Back in the courtroom, the judge learns that his own wife has also had an abortion.

• Astrid Frank [de] as Ulla
• Petra Verena Milchert [de]
• Doris Arden
• Sybil Danning as Frau des Richters
• Renate Kasché
• Josef Fröhlich [de]
• Josef Moosholzer
• Michel Jacot [de]
• Enzi Fuchs [de] as Krankenschwester
• Wolf Ackva
• Alexandra Bogojevic
• Rosl Mayr [de] as Kurpfuscherin