In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
El cap del servei d'espionatge soviètic, el coronel Stock, projecta fugir a Occident. Harry Palmer, un home que exerceix d'espia per força després d'haver estat atrapat en un assumpte brut, és enviat a Berlín per ajudar Stock, però per això haurà de canviar d'identitat.
Michael Armstrong és un físic que viatja a Copenhaguen per assistir a una conferència internacional. Michael intenta arribar fins al Berlín Oriental i oferir els seus serveis als comunistes. Sarah, la companya de Michael, el segueix per persuadir-lo que torni. En realitat, l'objectiu de Michael és descobrir tot el que sap el professor Lindt, que treballa per als comunistes, del projecte Gamma 5 i després escapar amb aquesta informació tan important.
Un grup d'estudiants alemanys d'una classe de l'últim any d'institut decideixen demostrar la seva solidaritat amb les víctimes de la Revolució Hongaresa de 1956 fent un minut de silenci durant les classes. Els alumnes acabaran sent investigats pel director del col·legi, el consell d'educació i el ministre en persona per trobar a l'instigador principal.
Estiu de 1980 en la República Democràtica Alemanya. Bàrbara, una metgessa, ha demanat autorització per marxar-se definitivament a Occident. Com a càstig, la traslladen de la capital a un poble. En Jörg, el seu amant, que resideix en l'Oest, prepara la seva fugida. Bàrbara espera. El pis, els veïns, l'estiu, el camp, gens sembla importar-li. Treballa en el departament de pediatria a les ordres de André, un cirurgià. És afectuosa amb els pacients, però distant amb els seus companys. Està convençuda que el seu futur començarà en un altre lloc. Però l'André la sorprèn. No entén per què confia en ella, en la seva professionalitat. Per què no la denúncia per voler ajudar a una adolescent fugida? Li han encarregat que la vigili? Està enamorat d'ella? El dia de la fugida s'apropa i Bàrbara comença a perdre el control de si mateixa, dels seus plans i del seu cor.
L'estiu del 1979, dues famílies de l'Alemanya de l'Est ideen un pla esbojarrat per abandonar la República Democràtica i viatjar a l'oest amb un globus aerostàtic casolà construït per ells mateixos. La tasca no serà senzilla, i els protagonistes s'hauran d'enfrontar no només als imprevistos d'aquest difícil viatge, sinó també a les autoritats del país, que faran mans i mànigues per detenir-los. Després d'un intent fallit i amb la Stasi seguint-los el rastre de molt a prop, les famílies Wetzel i Strelzyk emprendran una carrera a contrarellotge per recórrer la breu distància que els separa de la frontera amb la llibertat.
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.
When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems. New Socialist Unity Party secretary Werner Horrath is charged with bringing the rough-and-ready builder crew into line. The task seems doomed to fail as the two men compete for the affections of young engineer Kati Klee. But when she gets pregnant by married man Horrath, he is in danger of being expelled from the party, and Balla takes his side...
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Germany in 1968 to live in the DDR but killed himself eight months after.
East-Germany, 1990. The first summer after Germany's reunification and Olli is eager to explore this new freedom. But for someone who has never left his small village in East Germany, he has high expectations. On top of that, he is not the brightest candle on the cake. So when he's suddenly convinced that the glorious US is just a stone throw away, across the lake, his sister Peggy knows not to stop her brother but rather see where this adventure might lead them. And to Peggy's surprise New York's subway is closer than she thought.
Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before her, lived through the separation of East and West Germany. Tapetenwechsel (Change of Scenery) is the story of youth seeking their identity when confronting their collective memory.
When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state without telling his mother, Karin. The pair believe that the standing order to shoot anyone who crosses the Berlin Wall, as ordered by the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Erich Honecker, has been lifted due to the state visit of Swedish PM Ingvar Carlsson. The young men seize their chance and attempt the fateful escape to the west.
An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.