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- A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
- Based on a true story, Stephan Wagner's thriller focuses on a man and his fight against the East German secret service. After an escape attempt, Wolfgang Stein is sentenced to ten years in prison, but is finally ransomed by the West German government in 1971. Dieter Michaelis, another refuge, asks him to help an East German fellow-sufferer to flee the country via Bulgaria. This is the beginning of Stein's efforts to outsmart the agents of the East German "Staatssicherheit" again and again, until they finally try to eliminate him...
- Using almost completely positive clips from East German film archives, this deadpan documentary presents a history of the forty years of the former DDR.
- Marienborn, a small village somewhere in the middle of Germany, was once world famous. The town lay on the border between East and West and for decades served as the most important and most guarded border crossing of the Iron Curtain. Many here worked for 'the system', sometimes forced, as Stasi officer, guard, accountant or waitress. In this hermetically closed-off border town, where no westerner or outsider was allowed, the villagers formed a tight-knit community, caring for each other and creating a pleasant atmosphere. Yet, everyone knew that no one could truly be trusted. Criticism was unwelcome and even close friends could be informants. Now, almost 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, this documentary shows how the people of Marienborn are haunted by their past. Conflicting feelings of guilt, regret and a longing for their former sense of community have resulted in a lonely mutual silence. Meanwhile, the once-isolated community is flooded by outside visitors. Tourists ask imposing questions, pilgrims search for healing at the village's Holy well and an African asylum seeker, who ended up here by chance, tries to understand how the villagers live together. Being suspicious while falling under suspicion. Looking, while being watched. In this documentary the closed-off community of Marienborn lives as if in a claustrophobic dream while trying to reconcile with the past.
- 2000–202352mTV Episode