Радња филма смештеног у источни Берлин 1984. године прати Герда Вислера, искусног службеника државне безбедности, који добија задатак да прислушкује познатог и успешног позоришног писца Георга Дрејмана. Ово дебитантско целовечерње остварење редитеља Флоријана Хенкела фон Донерсмарка имало је рекордних 11 номинација на додели Немачких националних филмских награда, а овенчан је Оскаром за најбољи страни филм 2007. године.
Филм се пре свега бави одрастањем групе момака у анархичним, транзиционим временима у бившој Источној Немачкој, са освртом у њихово социјализмом обојено детињство. Посебна занимљивост овог филма је да не гледамо портрет Берлина, чији је источни део врло брзо прешао на западњачко стање свести, него у Лајпцигу, где је транзиција била и спорија и анархичнија.
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.
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.
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.
