Grenze

Grenze

Documentary about five young men who are being trained as border guards in the former GDR.

2004 de 79 minutes

Rating: 7

Plot

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citizens on the verge of adulthood see themselves forced, like so many others in East and West Germany, to do their one and a half years of military service. What is special: Their service area is the border system, an anti-imperialist protective wall according to their superiors, death strips and prison bars for a population incapacitated in naked reality. Now, seventeen years later, there is a reunion with the comrades and the old post. This feature film, which was the first in reunified Germany to deal with the inner workings of the GDR border troops, tells of life on the fence, the associated contradictions and some hot phases in the Cold War.

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Cast

Dirk Bojanowski

Dirk Bojanowski

Himself

René Longin

René Longin

Himself

Siegfried Mücke

Siegfried Mücke

Himself

David Nathan

David Nathan

(voice)

Thomas Rataj

Thomas Rataj

Himself

Nicolai Tegeler

Nicolai Tegeler

(voice)

Thomas Wolf

Thomas Wolf

Himself

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