(D 2025) 105 minutes FSK 6 - Drama Director: Wolfgang Becker with Charly Hübner, Christiane Paul, Leon Ullrich a.o.
Michael Hartung (Charly Hübner), the owner of a hopelessly over-indebted video store, has obviously backed the wrong horse all his life. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha in one fell swoop. The unyielding journalist claims that Micha helped organize the largest mass exodus from the GDR more than three decades ago as an employee of the former Reichsbahn. There is allegedly evidence of this in the archived Stasi files and even a documented prison sentence, followed by a forced transfer to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a tempting salary, Micha confirms the story, although only a few fragments of it correspond to the truth.
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Maxim Leo.