The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
The Lives of Others
2006
8.0/10
Wings of Desire
1987
7.8/10
Quiet as a Mouse
2004
6.1/10
Mindwalk
1991
6.9/10
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
7.5/10
Two Lives
2012
6.6/10
Dream Factory
2019
7.4/10
Petulia
1968
5.9/10
A Coffee in Berlin
2012
7.2/10
The Murderers Are Among Us
1946
6.9/10
The Tunnel
2001
7.1/10
Max
2002
6.1/10
Faraway, So Close!
1993
6.9/10
Paula
2016
6.3/10
Berlin Blues
2003
6.7/10
Alex of Venice
2015
5.9/10
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.1/10
Alone in Berlin
2016
6.7/10
Berlin Syndrome
2017
6.0/10
Sky
2015
6.2/10
Billy Elliot
2000
7.593/10
