Heimsuchung
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The film is set in 1989/1990 at a time when the "socialist" ideology underwent another major revolutionary collapse and the supposedly only progressive German "socialist", but walled-in GDR, joined the free West German society of the Federal Republic of Germany. In those days, the son of an East German teacher turns his back on the GDR because he is fed up with the eternal talk of the alleged superiority of "socialist" society and this "socialist" old day is nothing but dreariness and eternal gray everyday life for him. His mother, the convinced teacher and communist Christine Rautmann, suddenly realizes that her eternal propaganda of a golden socialist future is not falling on fertile ground with either her son or her pupils. She is suddenly faced with the ruins of her life as a teacher and mother. She herself becomes a seeker on a tremendously shaky social ground.
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Cast
15 people
Renate Geißler
Christine Rautmann
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Carmen-Maja Antoni
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Edgar Kaufmann
Bernd Wefelmeyer
Gudrun Okras
Frau Scholze
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Twin Sisters
Renate Richter
Schuldirektorin
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Happy End
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Thomas Büchel
Uwe
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Longing
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Alfred Schramm
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Soldiers of Freedom
White Wolves
Marcus Hopp
Niko
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Abschiedsdisco
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Dieter Knust
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Material
The Second Life of F.W.G. Platow
Regina Brandt
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Polizeiruf 110
Edgar Kaufmann Director · Martin Schlesinger Cinematographer Bert Schultz Editor
First release September 23, 1990 · Produced in XG · Production Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
Production
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production
XG
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Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · September 23, 1990
No release date listed for United States.
XG
September 23, 1990 · TV
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