Part 1: Times are changing (1987-1988)

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East Germany is bankrupt and needs foreign currency to avoid collapse. The state begins selling disgruntled citizens to West Germany for 90,000 Marks. Margot’s nephew and adopted son Roland is arrested fleeing to the West, now Margot must do everything she can to have him released.

East Germany is bankrupt and needs foreign currency to avoid collapse. The state begins selling disgruntled citizens to West Germany for 90,000 Marks. Margot’s nephew and adopted son Roland is…

The GDR is collapsing, and the Socialist Unity Party expends every last bit of its energy on its attempts to suppress any opposition. Margot pushes ahead with arrests and the ensuing sale of…

Lotte hopes for a new kind of socialism after the wall comes down. The state property of the GDR will be distributed fairly to each of its citizens, won’t it? Lotte joins a demonstration to stop the…

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Format

1×90’

Available

format and ready-made

Produced by

Gabriela Sperl production for Wiedemann & Berg Televison

Cast

Nadja Uhl, Barbara Auer, Nicolette Krebitz, Oliver Masucci, Godehard Giese a. o.

Year of Production

2019

Original Language

German

Broadcaster

ZDF

Writer

Charlotte Wetzel, Michael Klette, Gabriele Sperl, Michael Krummenacher

Director

Michael Krummenacher