냉전 시대 스파이 전쟁의 주 무대가 된 베를린, MI6의 요원을 살해하고 핵폭탄급 정보를 담고 있는 전 세계 스파이 명단을 훔쳐 달아난 이중 스파이를 잡기 위해 MI6 최고의 요원 로레인 브로튼(샤를리즈 테론)이 급파된다. 각 국의 스파이들은 명단을 차지하기 위해 혈안이 되고, 로레인 역시 동독과 서독을 오가며 미션을 수행한다. 리스트를 회수하기 위해서는 베를린에 10년 동안 있었던 자신을 믿어야 한다는 데이빗 퍼시벌(제임스 맥어보이)은 어딘가 수상한 구석이 있다. 로레인은 그를 감시하는 1년차 프랑스 스파이 델핀 라살(소피아 부텔라)과 강렬한 끌림을 느끼는데...
East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a life as a celebrated underground poet and his career as a Stasi agent. A choice that will turn back on him 30 years later.
1980년대 중반 동독에서는 9만명이 넘는 비밀경찰(슈타지)과 약 17만명의 정보원이 활동했다. 만인에 대한 만인의 밀고로 유지되는 세계에서는 더 끈덕지게 의심하는 자가 유능한 멤버다. 주인공 게르트 비즐러(울리히 뮈헤)는 탁월한 감시 및 심문 실력과 정치적 신념으로 무장한 비밀경찰. 비즐러는 동독 최고의 극작가 드라이만과 그의 애인이자 인기 여배우 크리스타를 감시하는 중대 임무를 맡는다. 그러나 시간이 지날수록 드라이만을 체포할 만한 단서는 찾을 수 없다. 비즐러는 오히려 드라이만과 크리스타의 삶으로 인해 감동받고 사랑을 느끼며 이전의 삶과는 달리 인간적인 모습으로 변화하기 시작하는데...
1979년 독일연방공화국. ‘피터’와 그의 가족은 직접 만든 열기구를 타고 동독에서 서독으로 탈출을 시도하지만 국경을 200m 남겨두고 열기구는 땅으로 곤두박질 치고, 계획은 실패로 돌아간다. 탈출 시도 흔적을 발견한 비밀경찰국은 전국에 수배령을 내리고, 피터 가족을 뒤쫓는다. 잡히면 온 가족의 목숨이 위험한 상황. 삼엄한 감시 속에 이번엔 친구 ‘귄터’ 부부와 함께 다시 한 번 탈출을 준비하는데…
동독에 거주하는 소아과 여의사 바바라는 출국 신청서를 냈다는 이유로 수도 베를린에서 시골의 작은 병원으로 좌천당한다. 정부의 치밀한 감시와 압박으로 숨조차 쉴 수 없는 나날을 이어가는 그녀에겐 서독에 있는 연인과 서독으로의 탈출만이 삶의 유일한 희망이다. 새로운 직장과 동료, 자전거를 타고 오가며 눈앞에 펼쳐지는 여름날의 아름다운 풍경과 눈부신 햇살, 그녀에게 따뜻하게 다가가는 그 모든 것들은 무의미할 뿐이었다. 하지만 냉담함과 무관심으로 일관하는 바바라를 따뜻하게 배려하는 동료 의사 안드레와 동독 청소년 작업소에서 강제 노동과 학대에 시달리던 어린 소녀 스텔라와 만나 교감하면서 바바라의 마음은 조금씩 흔들리기 시작한다. 꿈에 그리던 탈출을 감행하기로 한 날은 다가오고, 바바라는 누구도 예상치 못한 선택을 하게 되는데..
18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their parents are hostile leading to file a report to the court, as Barbara is still under age.
Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the proposal of marriage terrifies her.
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly in love with an East Berliner. Jenny’s parents are foaming from wrath and offer a reward: One-hundred thousand, later even a million, deutschmarks for whoever brings them their daughter back. The prospect of so much money gets east and west into quite a disarray – and in the end, the Wall really falls.
Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.
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
High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state. Just Don't Think I'll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects-almost an entire year's production-that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects. Although scenes and dialogs were altered and the end was reshot twice, officials condemned this title as "particularly harmful." In 1989, cinematographer Ost restored the original version, and this and most of the other banned films were finally screened in January 1990. Belatedly, they were acclaimed as masterpieces of critical realism.
In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.
Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.
A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
The electrician Peter Drews is a brigadier at a Baltic Sea dockyard. His men are among the most reliable and diligent workers at the dockyard. Their motivation, however, increasingly suffers from Peter’s narcissism and imperiousness. Even his girlfriend Brigitte who is also a member of the brigade finds it increasingly difficult to accept his behavior. One day, Peter decides that the entire group must enter the navy - just because he has received his conscription call. While four men follow Peter into the navy, Brigitte, who has broken up with Peter, takes over the control of the brigade. During the work at the ship on which Peter is based at she meets the charming lieutenant Asmus.
Adaptation of the classic fairytale.
