The Countess Alice is a 1992[1][2] BBC[3] made for television drama film directed by Moira Armstrong and features Wendy Hiller, Zoë Wanamaker and Duncan Bell.
In 1935 a young English society woman caused a stir by marrying a German aristocrat and moving to live with him in Germany.
Many decades later, shortly after German reunification, her daughter decides to make a trip to the family's former estate in East Germany.
The 'real' Konstanza had been shot by the invading Russians, and the Countess had been forced to take the daughter of a dying couple to save the child's life.
"[4] Thomas Sutcliffe of The Independent called the plotting "rather casual", and praised both Wanamaker and Hiller, also writing "So coercive was the direction in this respect that I was readying myself to laugh at the climactic encounter out of sheer cussedness; that I couldn't was down to Hiller's delicate persuasion and Wanamaker's compelling display of grief.