Die Todesautomatik

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?

ในไม่กี่ปี ก่อนกำแพงเบอร์ลินจะพังทลาย ในยุคนั้น ผู้ที่รัฐบาลจ้องจับผิดจะไร้ซึ่งเสรีภาพส่วนบุคคล แม้กระทั่งจอร์จ เดรย์แมน กับนักแสดงสาว คริสต้า มาเรีย ซีแลนด์ ที่ถูกลอบสังเกตุการณ์และดักฟัง โดยมีคำสั่งมาจากรัฐมนตรีบรูโน เฮมพฟ์ ซึ่งหาข้ออ้างเรื่องการสงสัยในการจงรักภักดีของเดรย์แมน ที่มีต่อพรรคสังคมนิยมหรือเอสอีดี ที่เป็นผู้ปกครองประเทศเยอรมนีอยู่

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.