West (2013)
East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
Drama
Cast
- Jördis Triebel — Nelly
- Tristan Göbel — Alexej
- Alexander Scheer — Hans Pischke
- Jacky Ido — John Bird
- Anja Antonowicz — Krystina
- Stefan Lampadius — Jürgen Lüttich
- Andreas Nickl — Gerd Becker
- Gabriele Schulze — Frau Breitscheit
- Michael Witte — Joachim Fierlinger
- Tania Carlin — Britische Geheimdienstlerin
- Ryszard Ronczewski — Krystynas Vater Jakob
- Polina Voskresenskaya — Jelena
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