Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
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Cast
Katharina Wackernagel
Elke Richter
Peter Schneider
Gregor Pohl
Katharina Spiering
Juliane Richter
Matthias Walter
Helmut Richter
Sebastian Nakajew
Frank Hartung
Bettina Kenney
Young Lover (voice)
Tilmar Kuhn
Grenzer
Robin Meisner
Junger Tscheche
Robert Mika
Kellner
Maximilian Nowka
Zollbeamter
David Nádvornik
Passant
Almut Queitsch
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