En 1984, en Berlín Oriental, un agente de la policía secreta, que vigilaba a un escritor y a su amante, se encuentra cada vez más absorto por sus vidas.
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Michael Armstrong es un físico norteamericano que viaja a la República Democrática Alemana con Sarah Sherman, su novia y secretaria. Una vez allí decide solicitar asilo político. En realidad, ha fingido ser un desertor y traicionar a su patria con el fin de acceder a un prestigioso investigador de la Alemania Occidental, y poder así obtener datos sobre una peligrosa tecnología nuclear soviética.
Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
Bárbara, cirujana en pediatría, es sospechosa de querer fugarse de la Alemania del Este de 1980. Por ello, el gobierno la destina a una pequeña clínica de provincia. Jörg, su amante, sigue preparando su evasión de la Alemania del Oeste. Mientras, André, el jefe de Bárbara, comienza a tomarse demasiadas confianzas con la mujer, que se siente incómoda y no sabe si confiar en él o no.
Viento de libertad se ubica en el verano de mil novecientos setenta y nueve, en la urbe alemana de Pobnek, en Turinga, donde las familias Strelzyk y Wetzel, preocupados por la situación en la Alemania del Este, están agobiados por escapar y evitar la frontera al oeste, en pos de un mejor futuro. De este modo, realizan un plan consistente en volar en un globo aerostático casero por una senda que no tiene vigilancia. Tras edificar el globo en secreto, las familias calculan el instante conveniente en que el viento les asista a llegar a su destino. Mas conforme la data del vuelo se aproxima, uno de los progenitores, Günter, comienza a enseñar serias preocupaciones sobre la capacidad del globo de aguantar a 8 personas en el aire. Las tensiones comienzan a acrecentar entre los adultos, mas el plan se realiza y conforme avanzan sobre la senda, las condiciones climáticas se dificultan, poniéndolos bajo riesgo de caer y ser atrapados por las autoridades.
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.
Basada el intento de fuga que, en 1979, planearon dos familias para pasar desde Berlín oriental a Berlín occidental.
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.