Noen år før det sosialistiske regimet i Øst-Tyskland rakner, er det fryktede Stasi i stand til å overvåke og etterforske hvem som helst for hva som helst. En effektiv Stasi-offiser får for første gang sympati for dem han skal avlytte. Men kan han utgjøre en forskjell?
Dette er den sanne historien om de østtyske familiene Strelzyk og Wetzel, som i september 1979 skapte overskrifter over hele verden. I all hemmelighet arbeidet de med å konstruere en luftballong, som skulle gjøre det mulig for dem at flykte fra diktaturet i øst til friheten i vesten. En dristig og modig plan, hvor både forberedelsene og selve flukten, setter dem i fokus for sikkerhetstjenesten Stasi med sine informanter plassert overalt. Og når Stasi uunngåelig kommer på sporet av dem, blir familienes flukt en kamp mot klokka, hvor hvert sekund teller…
Sommeren 1980 søker legen Barbara om utreisetillatelse fra Øst-Tyskland. Hun får avslag og sendes i stedet til et lite sykehus i et utkantstrøk. Kjæresten som allerede befinner seg i vest planlegger flukten hennes, men Barbara blir stadig mer involvert i arbeidet sitt. Når fluktdagen nærmer seg må hun foreta et livsviktig valg.
After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.
In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful place for both locals and newcomers. But the appearance of rural idyll in eastern Germany is deceptive. There are turnaround winners and turnaround losers, friends and enemies, neighbors eyeing each other with suspicion, gossip, old secrets and hidden conflicts. When the mayor puts forward the proposal to have a company build a wind farm with dozen of wind turbines in order to secure the prosperity and future of the locals, the open fight for the only possible piece of land begins, which unfortunately belongs to three different owners. Everyone sees big money for themselves. Alliances are formed and friends become enemies. In addition, an unscrupulous vulture capitalism investor from southern Germany interferes that causes the glass to overflow.
