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...
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...
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.
East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner, Lars struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.
Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
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.
Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg.
Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, meaning: They can not see each other again. Germany 1990: The country is reunited. Nele starts searching their lost love...
In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunification in 1990, talk about their times of trial and their lives today. Neither they, nor their families have come to terms with what happened.
Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson.
At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?
