A comedy by Wolfgang Becker, starring Charly Hübner and Christiane Paul (112 min.) // Open-air screening in the sculpture garden at Poppe Keramik
"The Hero of Friedrichstraße Station" tells the story of Micha Hartung (Charly Hübner), a Berlin video store owner on the brink of bankruptcy who unwittingly becomes a hero to all of Germany: When, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a journalist portrays him as the mastermind behind the largest mass escape from the GDR, his life is suddenly turned upside down. As an unwilling con artist, Micha becomes entangled in a web of half-truths and outright lies.
And just as the fragile house of cards that is history threatens to collapse around him and his life descends into utter chaos, he meets Paula (Christiane Paul)...
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