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  • Night on Earth

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    A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

  • Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East

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    Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid…

  • The Legend of Rita

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    Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

  • 23

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    The movie’s plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A.…

  • Sonnenallee

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    A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the “West German” friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the…

  • Good Bye, Lenin!

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    Alex Kerner’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

  • NVA

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    Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National People’s Army, a whole new world. Together with the weighty troublemaker Krüger, Heidler and his fellow soldiers try to somehow do their time between old hands and bureaucrats. It’s not always fun, because the superiors are annoying with socialist…

  • The Lives of Others

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    In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

  • Weissensee

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    Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.

  • Balls of Fury

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    Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he’s down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his…

  • Friendship!

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    A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: “friendship”.

  • After Winter Comes Spring

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    A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they’ve made, and their place in the world. Despite everything, hope persists.

  • Berlin – Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt

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  • Balloon

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    Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is…