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West (2013)
Directed by Christian Schwochow
Overview
East Germany. Summer, late 70’s. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij’s mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Jördis Triebel | Tristan Göbel | Alexander Scheer | Jacky Ido | Anna Antonowicz | Stefan Lampadius | Andreas Nickl | Gabriele Schulze | Michael Witte | Tania Carlin | Ryszard Ronczewski | Polina Voskresenskaya | Hendrik Arnst | Michael Benthin | Tatjana Berges | Angelika Böttiger | Winnie Böwe | Indre Bogdan | Diana-Maria Breuer | Tony Dunham | Rike Eckermann | Christian Ehrich | Julia Franck | Jeanette Haas | Regine Hentschel | Karin Johnson | Oskar Keymer | Carlo Ljubek | Michael Lucke | Doris Plenert | Hacky Rumpel | Lilja Seibicke | Kerstin Thielemann | Mary van der Schors | Jens Wachholz | Luise Weiß | Daniel Werner | Tom Zahner | Svetlana Belesova