The wall is gone: Martin copper (Florian Lukas, center left) goes over the bridge to look to the west his stolen daughter.
There are only a few months that are told in this, the third season – starting on the day the Berlin Wall fell and that it should be emphasized quite unlike felt a thousand documentaries and films on the same subject. “Weissensee” is different, individual, lets his protagonists the ambivalence of complex characters, pathos comes free and refreshingly entertaining therefore. On educational forefinger is omitted, everything arises effortlessly easy, even the large, ground collapsing drama this time, each recognized in the East, and tore into the vortex of this Weltuntergangs- and ascension story. Breathless, follow the copper, this bizarre family with their Stasi generals and dropouts, and all the other types that embody excellent down to the smallest supporting role, what happened to a collectivist society, written within a few weeks. The screenplays of Annette Hess and Friedemann Fromm are the best thing that has to summon German television on this subject. Quite large bow before Regina Ziegler, the producer, to advance this bold series project for her courage.
author: Regina Mönch, feuilleton correspondent in Berlin .
The pace of life of the protagonists increases from episode to episode, from the leisurely slowness of leaden early eighties (first season) on the Vorwendejahre, as the cracks in the concrete GDR were deeper, until the fury of the Berlin Wall: After that happened every day more than usual in some years of life. Season three shows this week on several stages: as a chamber piece of copper family that falls apart; no one can be seen in the headquarters of the Stasi power, where besides the melancholy patriarch Major General Hans Kupfer (Uwe Kockisch), as they are all hurtling with hysterical obduracy by an impasse on the great Clash. And third, the smoke-filled back room of the civil rights movement, which is infected by the poison of decomposition Stasi and exhausted cruel suspicions than it actually would be to tear down the abandoned power per se, which will soon avenge bitter. Because during the round table as a great democracy workshop prepares the transition while also creating ever, verscherbeln the clever apparatchik, now on the back stage, the country and provide mainly for their peers.
“Weissensee”, the third season, is a rousing political thriller with all the trimmings, and no one should believe that have not given it. Is all fiction and not invented. Not the last commands, down to shoot the people crazed pinch off the wall, not the clandestine contacts that the BND once linked to the Stasi generals to save the secret knowledge from destruction and for further use. Not the stunned watching from the perspective of just privileged if their good life crumbles hopelessly. Not the Nepper, tugs and Bauernfänger that emerge immediately from the West and just like the cold war profiteers are preparing by the Stasi and the SED is to make their own, dubious guarantees a killing in revolutionary times.
And again opening of the border: the protagonists Weissensee experience the first night in an unusual freedom in a trance. Photogallery
That’s sometimes hilarious, but remains a stuck laughter in the throat repeatedly when the villain and unloved son Falk while watching copper, as it is in free fall, to save himself right back on the next mountain peak , The still seems to get away with the worst abuses, yes austüftelt an unexpectedly steep second career that threaten seemingly only ambition induced heart attacks. Jörg Hartmann as copper Falk playing with grandiose and especially against his brother Martin (Florian Lukas), the righteous, who once again finds a great love in the journalist Katja Wiese. Carefully feeling he approaches the stranger who comes from the West, which soon no longer matters, because love and passion and the liberated thinking are limitless. Great Lisa Wagner as Katja Wiese, a delightfully brash Neuwestberlinerin full of curiosity on these East, she sees through amazingly fast and understands because this time the still allowed because the Jammer Ossis and the Better Westerners have not been invented yet and nothing more or nothing again to stifle true life threatening.
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Director Friedemann Fromm drives the action from scene to scene at the top, is staggering that in fast cuts Private fused to the public, shall take the political nor anyone who thinks he can stay out of the chaos and then everything will be well again. Nothing heals unawares, and yet everything is free, human normal, and melancholy arises a most if you look reminiscent of the then following dreary debates that nothing had by the powerful lightness of these innocent departure time when the GDR went down. This may afterwards send only one set of an obituary: “I liked this country means something,” says Falk copper, the criminal life destroyer, the intelligence officers from the West
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