The movie has a little bit of attraction for those like me who have grown up in east Germany, the dreaded DDR, but otherwise it is not going to beat any Hollywood movie at the box office.
Its plus points are the attractive, though not very expressive Christina Powileit and the dry honesty with which the movie shows life in the DDR, although the truth was still a little worse for most.
Its main minus point is the dreadful story that seems to sink from one letdown to the next. After the end I asked myself, what did the movie want to tell us? The answer is: Whatever a woman does, she will end up shipwrecked.
Its plus points are the attractive, though not very expressive Christina Powileit and the dry honesty with which the movie shows life in the DDR, although the truth was still a little worse for most.
Its main minus point is the dreadful story that seems to sink from one letdown to the next. After the end I asked myself, what did the movie want to tell us? The answer is: Whatever a woman does, she will end up shipwrecked.