“Light comedy with the joke on Honecker”
Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.
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Cast
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Rainer Grenkowitz
Meier
Also in
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Ticket to Rome
Nadja Engelbrecht
Nadja
Also in
Der kleine Vampir – Neue Abenteuer
Normal bitte
Alexander Hauff
Kalle
Also in
Who Am I
Shining Through
Thomas Bestvater
Erwin
Also in
Alone in Berlin
Don't Look for Me
René Grams
Klausi
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Dieter Hildebrandt
Kellner
Known for
Go Trabi Go
The Cow and I
Johanna Karl-Lory
Oma Krause
Also in
Letzte Nachrichten
The End of the Rainbow
Joachim Kemmer
Kretschmer
Known for
Otto – The New Movie
Dagmar Biener
Moni
Known for
Pappa ante Portas
Ödipussi
Klaus Münster
Grenzbeamter
Known for
The Fan
Pappa ante Portas
Wolfgang Nusche
Onkel Werner
Also in
Grundfleisch
Horst Pinnow
Kuno
Also in
Die Wicherts von nebenan
Ein Mord für Quandt
Peter Timm Director
First release May 22, 1986 · Produced in Germany
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · May 22, 1986
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