Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in together, who becomes pregnant by him and whom he soon marries. One day, an old friend, Dieter Michaelis, a fellow prisoner from Bautzen, comes to the reception center and asks Stein to work as an escape helper for his brother-in-law living in the GDR.
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Cast
Jörg Schüttauf
Wolfgang Stein
Martina Gedeck
Anne Stein
Matthias Brandt
Volker Erler
Matthias Brenner
Dieter Michaelis
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Maria Michaelis
Hannes Jaenicke
Sebastian Krüger
Martin Brambach
Jürgen Bungert
Christian Grashof
Manfred Landowski
Kathrin Kühnel
Bianca
Astrid M. Fünderich
Jutta
Arved Birnbaum
Stasi-Folterknecht
Paula Kalenberg
Nathalie Stein als Jugendliche
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