Cast
Henriette Confurius, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Herbert Knaup, Katja Flint, Edgar Selge, Renate Krößner, Veit Stübner u.v.a.
Team
Script
Holger Karsten Schmidt
Director of Photography
Hanno Lentz
Editor
Eva Schnare
Music
Stefan Mertin
Production Designer
Frank Godt
Line Producer
Gregori Winkowski
Creative Producer
Susanne Ottersbach-Flimm
Producer
Regina Ziegler
TV Editor
Barbara Buhl, WDR, Jana Brandt, MDR
Info
Broadcaster
ARD
Genre
TV-Movie
Beyond the Wall
2008 - Germany
September 1974. At the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany Heike (Katja Flint) and Ulrich Molitor (Edgar Selge), along with their two little children Klaus and Miriam, are caught trying to escape to the West. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption. If the Molitors refuse these conditions, they will both be imprisoned for a year - and then their son Klaus will also be taken from them. This situation forms the basis for an emotional story in which various destinies in East and West intertwine, reaching a dramatic climax with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Molitors have no choice but to leave Miriam in East Germany, and very soon a couple called Pramann (Ulrike Krumbiegel and Herbert Knaup) become devoted to the little girl and adopt her. 15 years later the West German teenager Nils (Moritz Grove), who is spending some time in East Germany visiting relatives, falls in love with the 17-year-old and extremely attractive Rebecca (Henriette Confurius). Rebecca herself has no idea that she is actually Miriam Molitor, who was adopted by the Pramanns. Meanwhile Brigitte Schröder (Renate Krößner), former head of a children's home and wife of a hardline communist functionary (Veit Stübner), has been writing fake letters to the Molitors, claiming to be their long-lost daughter. At the same time we meet a couple called Michaelis who have been denounced by Pramann (Herbert Knaup), an East German secret service officer, and who therefore face extreme hardship. But now the East German regime crumbles, the Berlin Wall falls, and on the night of the 10th of November 1989 the fate of all the protagonists becomes entwined when masses of East Germans sweep through the Bösebrücke border crossing.
This DVD is available commercially.
