November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back to East Germany but instead, as they witness on TV, end up beaming everyone in their town into West Germany! They have to race against time to undo the experiment before the nasty border guards open fire...
Production
Period-perfect East German details and authentic 1989 TV footage
Acting
Devid Striesow's hilariously stressed border guard villain
Director
Markus Dietrich
Flora Thiemann
Friederike
Finn Fiebig
Fabian
Devid Striesow
Abschnittsbevollmächtigter Mauder
Yvonne Catterfeld
Katharina Bode
Maxim Mehmet
Torsten Bode
Andreas Schmidt
Herr Karl
Jacob Matschenz
Onkel Mike
Ursula Werner
Oma Bode
Christina Große
Frau Ziehmann
Marie Gruber
Frau Schwartze
Bernd Stegemann
Bürgermeister Basko
Herbert Olschok
Direktor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Markus Dietrich was only 28 when he made this, pulling from his own childhood memories of November 9, 1989.
The film was shot entirely in former East German locations, using real abandoned border installations that hadn't been touched since reunification.
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