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The Tower (2012)
Directed by Christian Schwochow
Overview
Adapted from an award-winning best-selling book by Uwe Tellkamp, ‘The Tower’ depicts a higher class family’s struggles during crumbling communist rule in 1980’s East Germany. It illustrates the weaknesses and pending downfall of the German communist state through an intimate portrayal of one family’s struggles, dreams and decisions. Run-ins with East Germany’s Secret Police reveal the cracks in both the police state and family loyalties.
Length 180 minutes
Actors
Jan Josef Liefers | Steffi Kühnert | Thorsten Merten | Nadja Uhl | Sebastian Urzendowsky | Claudia Geisler | Hans-Uwe Bauer | Ernst-Georg Schwill | Christian Sengewald | Udo Schenk | Claudia Michelsen | Antonio Wannek | Götz Schubert | Peter Prager | Sergej Moya | David C. Bunners | Janusz Kocaj | Stephanie Stumph | Peter Sodann | Juergen Maurer | Bettina Kenney | Martin Seifert | Annika Olbrich | Valery Tscheplanowa | Lea Ruckpaul | Martin Bruchmann | Josephin Busch | Klaus Bieligk