Un hombre sale de la cárcel tras cumplir cuatro años por asesinar a una anciana. Rápidamente comienza a sentir la compulsión de matar de nuevo.
Nos encontramos en la Thüringen, Alemania del Este, en verano de 1979. Dos familias idean un alocado plan: abandonar la República Democrática Alemana y viajar al Oeste en un globo construido por ellos mismos. La tarea no será sencilla y los protagonistas se tendrán que enfrentar no solo a los imprevistos de este difícil viaje, sino también a las autoridades del país que buscan desechar su plan.
Año 1961, República Democrática Alemana. Harry Melchior (Heino Ferch) es un alemán anticomunista de la Alemania del este que consigue escapar del régimen comunista nada más completarse la construcción del muro de Berlín. Entonces decide ayudar a escapar a su querida hermana, que se tuvo que quedar al otro lado.
Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.
La CIA encarga a un científico americano una peligrosa misión en Alemania Oriental: debe encontrarse con un investigador ruso, cuyas obras ha traducido, que le entregará un microfilme con información imprescindible para que los americanos sean los primeros en llegar a la Luna. Una vez allí, agentes de la inteligencia rusa seguirán sus pasos.
"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.
Portrait of the spokesman of the student movement and extra-parliamentary opposition Rudi Dutschke, who died on December 24, 1979 from the late effects of an assassination attempt. The film is not limited to the mere biography of the extra-parliamentary politician, but also depicts the political environment as well as the late effects of the student movement. In retrospect, it condenses into a picture of a highly politicized society that had not yet begun its retreat into the private sphere.