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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.
Release Date
October 25, 2013Runtime
102 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Christian Schwochow, Inés BurgerScreenplay by
Heide SchwochowLanguage
GermanBudget
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ReleasedCast
Jördis Triebel
NellyTristan Göbel
AlexejAlexander Scheer
Hans PischkeJacky Ido
John BirdAnja Antonowicz
KrystinaStefan Lampadius
Jürgen LüttichAndreas Nickl
Gerd BeckerGabriele Schulze
Frau BreitscheitMichael Witte
Joachim FierlingerTania Carlin
Britische GeheimdienstlerinRyszard Ronczewski
Krystynas Vater JakobHendrik Arnst
Pförtner NeumannMichael Benthin
Arthur WilhelmAngelika Böttiger
Dame vom ärztlichen DienstWinnie Böwe
SusanneDiana-Maria Breuer
Beamtin 1Rike Eckermann
BlumenverkäuferinRegine Hentschel
Krystynas ChefinKarin Johnson
CIA-ProtokollatinOskar Keymer
Junge vom SchulhofCarlo Ljubek
Dr. Wassilij BatalowDoris Plenert
Frau Siebers