East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies with socialism and believes he has to defend his country against the capitalist enemy. While Jürgen is astonished, his wife Hanna and Marco's girlfriend Anja, supporting the civil rights movement, don't like his new attitude...
Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz...
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision th...
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy...
On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to t...
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an ...
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on...
A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border —...
Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play ...
Tom does not have it easy. At the student theater, his friend Jan and his beloved Annelie play the l...
In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the west...
Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career toge...
A UFO believer must choose between the aliens above he has never seen or the mysterious guide who ap...
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave...
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for...
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...