Movies and TvShows featuring "west-german-east-german-border" theme.

Balloon is a gripping drama based on the true story of two families who escaped from East Germany to West Germany in an improvised hot air balloon. Set in 1979 and 1989, the film follows a group of friends, including an electrician and a physicist, as they meticulously plan their daring escape. Tensions rise as they evade the Stasi and border patrol officers, with their lives hanging in the balance.

In Sun Alley, a teenage girl growing up in East Berlin's Neukölln neighborhood faces the challenges of becoming an adult while dealing with border crossings, lost passports, school dances, and a group of friends. With dreams of becoming an actress, she navigates through the complexities and absurdities of life in the German Democratic Republic.

During the Cold War, an undercover agent from MI6 is sent to East Germany to investigate a suspected leak of information from a missile site. As he digs deeper into the mission, he discovers a complex web of political intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous secrets.

In 1986, Anna from West Germany and the GDR citizen Philipp meet at a church youth exchange in East Berlin. It's love at first sight. But it is also an impossible love, because between them stands the wall.

In 1960s East Berlin, a German scientist decides to defect to the West, leading to a dangerous and thrilling journey involving espionage, illegal border crossings, and a hunt by the secret police.

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Rabbit à la Berlin is a documentary that tells the story of rabbits living on the Berlin Wall, exploring the metaphor of freedom and confinement. It captures their lives in the border region and their unique experiences during the era of the Berlin Wall.

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.

A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and international level.

Genosse Münchhausen is a political satire comedy that takes place during the Cold War. The story follows a German farmer who becomes an unlikely hero when he accidentally crosses the West German-East German border on a rocket. With elements of nudity, barbed wire, and humorous commentary on the political situation of the time, this film offers a unique and satirical take on the era.

Satire about German reunification.

With their border crossings, transit routes and their control by the “Volks-Polizei” (GDR police), with their concrete slabs and their history of construction, reaching back to the “Reichsautobahn” of the National Socialist era, the AUTOBAHN east stands as an example of German and German-German history. With a flair for anecdotes and situations, big politics and the small folks along the side of the road, Gerd Kroske has filmed a documentary, which refers back to the educational films of the transit police and footage of surveillance cameras of the state security and shows much more than a piece of “civil engineering” history.