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Transit (2010) (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Angela Zumpe

Written By:
Angela Zumpe

Actors:
Angela Zumpe

Synopsis:

West Berlin, Lankwitz. In May 1968, my 21-year-old brother Reinhard announced to my father, my mother and myself that within a few days he would be moving over to the GDR and applying for East German citizenship. Contacts were broken off.My brother committed suicide in January of 1969, on a sunday morning, while my father, a Berlin minister, read the sermon to his community.The film is a search for traces - in the time between reception camp and his death 8 months later, for possible stations of my brother in East Germany, who was disappointed that there was no revolution in the West. In the course of my search I encounter Salomea G., who consciously chose the other system and Henriette S., who moved to the GDR with her mother as a teenager. A search for the history and the allure of the other part of Germany, narrated some decades after the events and from the point of view of a woman from West Berlin.

May 1968: The student protests in West-Berlin are in full swing, and in the middle of it all, my 21-year-old brother Reinhard. He openly flirts with socialist tenants, partly out of protest against our conservative father. It is the last we hear from him. Eight months later, in January 1969, Reinhard is found dead. His suicide is baffling. What drove him behind the Iron Curtain, and what happened to him there? Nearly forty years later, I go in search of traces of his short life in East Germany.

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