Directed by:
Franziska StünkelScreenplay:
Franziska StünkelCinematography:
Nikolai von GraevenitzComposer:
Karim Sebastian EliasCast:
Lars Eidinger, Moritz Jahn, Luise Heyer, Peter Benedict, Devid Striesow, Hendrik Heutmann, Daniel Thomas, Stefan Woelk, Inka Löwendorf, Florian Anderer (more)Plots(1)
East Berlin, 1981. The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear... This gripping historical drama is inspired by the life and death of Werner Teske, the last prisoner executed in the former GDR. (Cinemax)
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Filmed, it looks very mundane, but in reality, it is a two-hour psychological breakdown of an intelligent person - a doctor - driven to extremes by the regime. Psychologically very brutal and uncompromising. The time must have been awful, and I don't understand anyone who can only remember it in a good light. Today's youth, in my opinion, would burst into tears after the first pressure from above. And if they didn't cry, they would talk and talk and think they have the right to. Oh, those gullible ones.
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