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TV Movie · Drama
Overview
24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …
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Lutz Mackensy
Lutz Mackensy
Grüttner
Lutz Mackensy
Grüttner
Fritz Hollenbeck
Fritz Hollenbeck
Firzlaff
Fritz Hollenbeck
Firzlaff
Franz Rudnick
Franz Rudnick
Politstellvertreter
Franz Rudnick
Politstellvertreter


Edgar Bessen
Edgar Bessen
Postenführer
Edgar Bessen
Postenführer


Eberhard Fechner
Eberhard Fechner
Pierott
Eberhard Fechner
Pierott


Henning Venske
Henning Venske
Student
Henning Venske
Student


Rolf Schimpf
Rolf Schimpf
Berliner Schutzpolizeibeamter
Rolf Schimpf
Berliner Schutzpolizeibeamter
Georg Eilert
Georg Eilert
Georg Eilert
Ortwin Speer
Ortwin Speer
Ortwin Speer
Jochen Genscher
Jochen Genscher
Jochen Genscher
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