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Grenze (2004)

ALL 08/03/2004 (de) Documentary 79 Min
  • Release
    08/03/2004
  • Production
    MDR
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Grenze
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Documentary about five young men who are being trained as border guards in the former GDR.

Overview

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citizens on the verge of adulthood see themselves forced, like so many others in East and West Germany, to do their one and a half years of military service. What is special: Their service area is the border system, an anti-imperialist protective wall according to their superiors, death strips and prison bars for a population incapacitated in naked reality. Now, seventeen years later, there is a reunion with the comrades and the old post. This feature film, which was the first in reunified Germany to deal with the inner workings of the GDR border troops, tells of life on the fence, the associated contradictions and some hot phases in the Cold War.

  1. Holger Jancke

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Grenze (2004) 79 Min

ALL 08/03/2004 (de)
Documentary
  • Release 08/03/2004
  • Production
    MDR
  • Original title Grenze
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Documentary about five young men who are being trained as border guards in the former GDR.

Overview

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citizens on the verge of adulthood see themselves forced, like so many others in East and West Germany, to do their one and a half years of military service. What is special: Their service area is the border system, an anti-imperialist protective wall according to their superiors, death strips and prison bars for a population incapacitated in naked reality. Now, seventeen years later, there is a reunion with the comrades and the old post. This feature film, which was the first in reunified Germany to deal with the inner workings of the GDR border troops, tells of life on the fence, the associated contradictions and some hot phases in the Cold War.

  1. Holger Jancke

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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