Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), uma agente disfarçada do MI6, é enviada para Berlim durante a Guerra Fria para investigar o assassinato de um oficial e recuperar uma lista perdida de agentes duplos. Ao lado de David Percival (James McAvoy), chefe da localidade, a assassina brutal usará todas as suas habilidades nesse confronto de espiões.
Georg Dreyman é o maior dramaturgo da Alemanha Oriental, sendo por muitos considerado o modelo perfeito de cidadão para o país, já que não contesta o governo nem seu regime político. Apesar disto o ministro Bruno Hempf acha por bem acompanhar seus passos, para descobrir se Dreyman tem algo a esconder. Ele passa esta tarefa para Anton Grubitz, que a princípio não vê nada de errado com Dreyman mas é alertado por Gerd Wiesler, seu subordinado, de que ele deveria ser vigiado. Grubitz passa a tarefa a Wiesler, que monta uma estrutura em que Dreyman e sua namorada, a atriz Christa-Maria Sieland, são vigiados 24 horas.
No verão de 1979, na Alemanha Oriental, uma família bola um ousado plano para finalmente conseguir deixar o local: montar um grande balão caseiro que irá flutuar até a fronteira ocidental e repousar naturalmente logo depois. No entanto, na primeira tentativa, o clima instável faz com que eles pratiquem um pouso forçado e as autoridades são avisadas, fazendo com que a família corra contra o tempo.
Verão de 1980. Barbara é uma pediatra que se viu transferida de Berlim para um hospital de uma cidade remota e isolada da Alemanha Oriental. A nova colocação surgiu depois de se ter candidatado a um visa para emigrar para o lado Ocidental do país. É lá que se encontra o seu namorado que prepara a fuga de Barbara enquanto a médica aguarda pacientemente pelo dia da sua libertação. O novo apartamento, os vizinhos, o Verão e o campo não significam nada para ela. No trabalho, Barbara é atenciosa, mas distante, seguindo as indicações do responsável do Hospital, André. Mas o médico confunde-a: deposita confiança nas suas capacidades profissionais, é carinhoso e o seu sorriso revelam um homem apaixonado. Ou será este médico um espia contratado para seguir os seus passos e revelá-los ao governo?
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 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.
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.
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.
August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep going.
1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War crisis and forcing 60 hapless passengers to decide in minutes whether to give up everything and stay in the West...
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.
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene and insist that the young couple joins the family vacation. Problems arise, so everyone ends up traveling to the Bulgarian Black Sea on their own. Along the way, Jonas meets a beautiful Dutch girl who is going to India via Turkey…
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...
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.
A focus on the inner workings of a political party making headlines at district, state and national level as an “alternative for Germany”. Thanks to the film’s striking objectivity, it becomes clear where argument ends and contradictions begin.
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.
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?
