Berlin, 1989. Helena and Louise are happy in their relationship if it wasn't for this huge wall separating them. The only solution is writing letters. But what the two of them don't know is that Stasi officer Bernd who works for the surveillance department, is enjoying their constant letter exchanges as his daily bed time story. While Bernd has yet to figure out how to read between the lines, his assistant Eberhardt grows suspicious and desperately tries to open Bernd's eyes. But maybe Bernd isn't as oblivious as Eberhardt thinks he is. While the officers are playing hide and seek with Louise's and Helena's letters, the women are already in the midst of escaping. Nothing can stop them now. Except for maybe...the Fall of the Wall?

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The film is based upon key findings from an extensive research project, 'Knowing the Secret Police', and reflects upon how different kinds of knowledge were circulated through social, religious, political and literary networks within the former GDR. The filmmakers present this research with footage filmed at key locations throughout East Berlin and the wider surrounding landscape, including the Stasi archives and former HQ, Karl-Marx-Allee, Volkspark Friedrichshain, rural 'dacha' cabins, the urban neighbourhood of Prenzlauerberg and the social housing estates of Marzahn.

East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a life as a celebrated underground poet and his career as a Stasi agent. A choice that will turn back on him 30 years later.

East-Berlin, 1980. Two sisters, one professional fleeing assistant and one soldier. And an escape that could go either way...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.

Turyngia, lato 1979 roku. Od ponad dwóch lat rodziny Strelzyków i Wetzelów pracują wspólnie nad realizacją odważnego planu - chcą uciec z Niemiec Wschodnich samodzielnie skonstruowanym balonem. Niestety, balon rozbija się tuż przed zachodnioniemiecką granicą. Stasi znajduje ślady próby ucieczki i natychmiast rozpoczyna dochodzenie. Rodziny są zmuszone jak najszybciej zbudować nowy balon. Kiedy służby bezpieczeństwa depczą im po piętach, rozpoczyna się nerwowa walka z czasem.

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found.

Berlin, rok 1989, niedługo przed upadkiem Muru Berlińskiego i wprowadzeniem w życie nowego układu sił pomiędzy światowymi supermocarstwami. Jeśli przyjąć, że dla szpiega "normalką" jest życie wśród ludzi, którym ufać nie sposób, normalne funkcjonowanie w najzimniejszym z miast Zimnej Wojny jest rzeczą praktycznie niewykonalną. Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), twarda jak stal i uwodzicielska niczym wąż, agentka brytyjskiego wywiadu MI6, zostaje wysłana do Niemiec, żeby unicestwić siatkę szpiegowską, która doprowadziła z niewiadomych powodów do śmierci tajnego alianckiego agenta.

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany.

A documentary spy thriller that takes place during the Cold War but which gets its resolution today in the small village of Burträsk outside Umeå, northern Sweden. A deeply-believing priest, well-liked and respected by everyone or a ruthless spy who has no hesitation in referring his friends and colleagues to the dreaded security service STASI in the former GDR. Who is Aleksander Radler, the man with two different personalities?

Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson.

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?

Akcja filmu rozgrywa się w 1980 roku we wschodnich Niemczech. Lekarka Barbara (Nina Hoss) składa wniosek o wizę emigracyjną, co władze uznają za oficjalne wygłoszenie chęci opuszczenia Niemieckiej Republiki Demokratycznej. Kobieta zostaje dyscyplinarnie przeniesiona z prestiżowego szpitala w Berlinie Wschodnim do małej miejscowości położonej niedaleko Morza Bałtyckiego. Rozpoczyna tam pracę na oddziale chirurgii dziecięcej, kierowanym przez dr André Reisera (Ronald Zehrfeld). Tymczasem Jörg (Mark Waschke), kochanek Barbary, planuje pomóc kobiecie w ucieczce z kraju.

At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial employees" of the State Security. They were approached and recruited in youth clubs, churches and schools. They were assumed to spy on their friends or report on their parents.