Thomas Brussig

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

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 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.

ГДР 70-х годов. Миха и его друзья живут возле разделяющей город Берлинской стены на восточной стороне Солнечной аллеи. Той самой улицы, которая начинается в Западном, а заканчивается в Восточном Берлине. На востоке — участковые, агенты «штази» и партийные лозунги, на западе — бананы, порножурналы, диски «Rolling Stones» и нейлоновые колготки. Но Миху и его друзей не интересуют принципиальные разногласия между «пролетарским» востоком и «буржуазным» западом. Их волнуют лишь рок-музыка, выпивка и девчонки. Особенно Мириам — несравненная и недоступная, способная одним своим появлением остановить уличное движение. Ради нее Миха готов на все…

ГДР 70-х годов. Миха и его друзья живут возле разделяющей город Берлинской стены на восточной стороне Солнечной аллеи. Той самой улицы, которая начинается в Западном, а заканчивается в Восточном Берлине. На востоке — участковые, агенты «штази» и партийные лозунги, на западе — бананы, порножурналы, диски «Rolling Stones» и нейлоновые колготки. Но Миху и его друзей не интересуют принципиальные разногласия между «пролетарским» востоком и «буржуазным» западом. Их волнуют лишь рок-музыка, выпивка и девчонки. Особенно Мириам — несравненная и недоступная, способная одним своим появлением остановить уличное движение. Ради нее Миха готов на все…