East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner, Lars struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.
Direction
Rossi squeezes unbearable tension into 18 minutes.
Acting
Obermöller's silent panic across the dinner table.
Director
Manuela Rossi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in former East German buildings, using period-accurate Stasi surveillance equipment loaned from museums.
The 18-minute runtime mirrors real Stasi interrogation protocols—short, intense, designed to break.
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