Between the years 1949 and 1990 roughly four million people left the GDR for West Germany. “WEST” (adapted from the book Lagerfeuer Julia Franck – now published as West in English by Harvill Secker/Vintage Books) tells the story of a young mother who together with her son leaves the GDR to try for a new beginning in the West. But she discovers she has to undergo more interrogations by the Allied secret services who treat many refugees with the suspicion that they may be working for the Stasi. The Emergency Refugee Centre turns from a place... of safety into a cold war location proving once more that one cannot leave without taking along one’s past. [show more]
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Christian Schwochow directs this German drama based on the novel 'Lagerfeuer' by Julia Franck. Nelly Senff (Jördis Triebel) lives in East Germany with her son Alexej (Tristan Göbel). When her boyfriend Wassilij (Carlo Ljubek) is killed in a car accident, Nelly decides to make the biggest decision of her life and cross the wall to West Germany. Determined to start a new life in the West, Nelly and Alexej try their hardest to adjust, but with the intelligence agencies starting to ask questions about Wassilij's mysterious and sudden death, making a clean break proves more difficult than Nelly imagined.
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