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"Pictures from the late eighties in the GDR on up to the immediate present in the year 2008 in Germany. What has been left over besieges my mind. All these pictures keep reassembling themselves to make up something which they were…

DirectorThomas Heise
WriterThomas Heise

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Cast · Directed by Thomas Heise

FM
Fritz Marquardt
KK
Karl Kneidl

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