Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.

La vie de l’écrivain, poète et cinéaste allemand Thomas Brasch, étudiant rebelle en RDA puis auteur reconnu en RFA, resté fidèle à son caractère révolutionnaire. Un biopic dense signé Andreas Kleinert.

Die DDR ist noch jung, aber Thomas Brasch passt schon nicht mehr rein. Es ist vor allem sein Vater Horst, der den neuen deutschen Staat mit aufbauen will. Doch Thomas will lieber Schriftsteller werden. - Wiederentdeckung eines Künstlers, der die deutsch-deutsche Zerrissenheit wie nur wenige vor und nach ihm verkörperte. Regie: Andreas Kleinert.