The Wall fell. His marriage followed.
Theo Neuner is an unscrupulous West German building contractor who senses big business in the GDR after the collapse of the SED dictatorship. But things don't turn out as he had imagined. The fall of the Berlin Wall does not bring the desired business, but rather a number of private problems: his lover dies, her sister makes his wife suspicious and the marital crisis reaches its climax on a business trip to Berlin...
Acting
Manfred Krug's magnificent bastard energy.
Writing
Satire sharper than the Wall's remaining concrete.
Director
Werner Masten
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Manfred Krug was an actual East German defector who became a West German TV star — casting him as a West German exploiting the East is delicious irony.
The film captures that brief 1990 window when East Germans were naive about capitalism and West Germans were naive about East Germans.
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