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
Max
2002
6.2/10
Alone in Berlin
2016
6.7/10
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.1/10
Holy Lands
2019
6.1/10
Eleanor the Great
2025
6.8/10
Dream Lover
1994
6.8/10
The Brutalist
2024
6.9/10
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
2023
5.8/10
What Maisie Knew
2013
7.1/10
In a Land That No Longer Exists
2022
6.3/10
Two Lives
2012
6.6/10
Conspiracy
2001
7.3/10
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
7.3/10
Night Always Comes
2025
6.1/10
Berlin Alexanderplatz
2020
6.9/10
Hardball
2001
6.5/10
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
5.9/10
Here
2024
6.5/10
The Killing of Two Lovers
2021
6.4/10
Omelette
1992
7/10
