West Backdrop Blur
West Poster
6.1 1h 42m

West

"She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past."

East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

Top Cast

  • Jördis Triebel

    Jördis Triebel

    Nelly

  • Tristan Göbel

    Tristan Göbel

    Alexej

  • Alexander Scheer

    Alexander Scheer

    Hans Pischke

  • Jacky Ido

    Jacky Ido

    John Bird

  • Anja Antonowicz

    Anja Antonowicz

    Krystina

  • Stefan Lampadius

    Stefan Lampadius

    Jürgen Lüttich

  • Andreas Nickl

    Andreas Nickl

    Gerd Becker

  • Gabriele Schulze

    Gabriele Schulze

    Frau Breitscheit

  • Michael Witte

    Michael Witte

    Joachim Fierlinger

Overview

East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

Rating

6.1 / 10
32 Reviews
0 Popular

Trailers & Clips

Recommendations

The Kindness of Strangers

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

The Kindness of Strangers

6.3 2019
Georgetown

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

Georgetown

5.9 2019