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Sandra Hüller
Maren
Max Riemelt
Robert
Ronald Zehrfeld
Volker
Peter Kurth
Markowski
Martin Brambach
Lunkewitz
Uwe Preuss
Dieter Kulitzka
Ursula Werner
Käthe
Robert Höller
Neighbor
Lotte Keiling
Dini
Kathrin Wehlisch
Janette
Meikel Engelmann
Salesman
Tom Keune
Comrade
Tilla Kratochwil
Guard
David Bredin
Soldier
Yorck Dippe
Herbert Bahlow
Christoph Müller
Siegl
Hilmar Eichhorn
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Anselm Haderer
Jannik
Olli Dittrich
Vertreter Meier
Tilla Kratochwil
Andrea Fiedow
Natja Brunckhorst
Grenzbeamtin (uncredited)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christian Skibinski
Arbeitssuchender (uncredited)
Theo Waigel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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A review by Brent Marchant

Written by Brent Marchant on Mon Oct 21 2024

Stories based on the notion that “truth is stranger than fiction” often provide a great foundation for comedy, and writer-director Natja Brunckhorst’s second feature is evidence of that. This fact-based tale set in 1990 during the transitionary days of German reunification follows the newly uncertain lives of a group of working class residents in the city of Halberstadt as they seek to cope with the emerging social, economic and political paradigm that has been thrust upon them. As their East German homeland is absorbed into its Western counterpart, the socialist nation begins evolving into a n...