Восточный Берлин, ноябрь 1984 года. За пять лет до своего низвержения восточно-германское правительство обеспечивает свои притязания на власть беспощадной системой контроля и сыска. Преданный партиец капитан Герд Вислер надеется подняться по служебной лестнице, выполняя работу по сбору улик против драматурга Георга Дрaймана и его подруги - знаменитой театральной актрисы Кристы-Марии Зиланд.
Однако он не ожидал, что погружение в мир объекта наблюдения меняет и самого сыскного агента. Погружение в жизнь других - в любовь, литературу, свободу мысли и слова - приводит Вислера к острому осознанию скудости его собственного существования и открывает ему совершенно новый образ жизни, противостоять которому становится всё сложнее. Но когда система уже запущена, она не может быть остановлена. Опасная игра началась…
Агент Лоррейн Бротон, бриллиант в короне Секретной разведывательной службы Ее Величества, не просто мастер шпионажа: она бомбически сексуальна, взрывоопасна и использует весь арсенал своих уникальных умений во время невыполнимых миссий. В неспокойном Берлине, куда ее направляют с заданием вернуть бесценное досье, она вынуждена объединиться с агентом под прикрытием Дэвидом Персивалем. Вместе им предстоит проложить путь через тернии смертельных шпионских игр.
Конец 1970-х годов. Семья Штрельцик и семья Ветцай, пытаясь сбежать в Западную Германию, решают пересечь границу на самодельном воздушном шаре.
Красивая девушка из ГДР подала заявление на выезд из страны и за это сослана в провинцию. В свободном мире ее ждет возлюбленный, который уже разработал для нее план побега на лодке через Балтийское море. А пока Барбара живет под надзором спецслужб и работает в больнице в отделе педиатрической хирургии, где вместе со своим коллегой Андре пытается помочь юной беженке из трудовой колонии — ярой противнице режима.
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.
Правда об Эрихе Мильке, печально известном главе секретной службы Восточной Германии «Штази»: его мотивации, его карьера и его падение.
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.
Немецкое ретро о любовных и политических забавах молодых дрезденцев в 1961 году. ГДР глазами юного провинциала предстает страной первых поцелуев, ночных денс-клубов и безбашенных драчунов с режимом. Вскоре, однако, невинные шалости непуганой молодежи перерастают в серьезные стычки с Системой, романтическое увлечение — в любовную драму, а Берлин оказывается разделенным легендарной Стеной.
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?
