CinemaOSMovie · 1986 · 1h 35m

Meier

Light comedy with the joke on Honecker

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Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.

Directed byPeter Timm

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 35m
Language
DE
Released
May 22, 1986

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Rainer Grenkowitz

Rainer Grenkowitz

Meier

Nadja Engelbrecht

Nadja Engelbrecht

Nadja

Alexander Hauff

Alexander Hauff

Kalle

Thomas Bestvater

Thomas Bestvater

Erwin

René Grams

Klausi

Dieter Hildebrandt

Dieter Hildebrandt

Kellner

Johanna Karl-Lory

Oma Krause

Joachim Kemmer

Joachim Kemmer

Kretschmer

Dagmar Biener

Dagmar Biener

Moni

Klaus Münster

Klaus Münster

Grenzbeamter

Creative team
Directed by
Peter Timm
Written by
Peter Timm

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