Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns. The Blind Side of the Heart [...]
Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. She abandons him on the station platform and never returns. Many years earlier, Helene and her sister Martha's childhood in rural Germany is abruptly ended by the outbre[...]
Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind the prying eyes of the Stasi. But the West is not all she hoped for. Nelly and her children are held in Marienfelde, a processing centr[...]
This is the moving story of a brother and a sister caught in the tide of the Cold War. Kathe is a Jewish sculptor living in East Berlin. A survivor of the Nazi era, she is a fervent socialist who has been using her political connections to secure more significant commissions. Devoted entirely to suc[...]
Eine idyllische Kindheit in der Lausitz am Vorabend des ersten Weltkriegs, das Berlin der goldenen Zwanziger, die groÃe Liebe: So könnte das Glück klingen, denkt Helene. Aber steht ihr die Welt wirklich offen? Helene glaubt unerschütterlich daran, folgt ihren Träumen und lebt ihre Gef[...]
Als ihre Nachbarin Charlotte bei einem Autounfall tödlich verunglückt, zieht Beyla in deren Wohnung und findet sich mitten im Leben ihrer toten Vorgängerin wieder. Sie verliebt sich in den rätselhaften Albert, den sie bereits auf Charlottes Beerdigung gesehen hat, und erfährt erst ganz allmähl[...]
Like his contemporaries Neo Rauch and Michael Triegel, Leipzig painter Peter Krauskopf (born 1966) was a student of Arno Rink, who encouraged his students to pursue their own paths, however unfashionable they might seem. Following this advice, Krauskopf initially embraced classical landscape paintin[...]
1945. En liten jernbanestasjon et eller annet sted i Vorpommern. Helene har fått sin syv år gamle sønn trygt gjennom de vanskelige krigsårene. Nå, som alt er overstått, alt virker mulig, etterlater hun ham alene på perrongen og vender aldri tilbake.Linfruen er en stor og bevegende familieroma[...]