Overview

This German documentary tells the story of former East German elite soldiers yet to come to terms with their past in the wake of the Berlin Wall falling. Divided between radicals and legalists, they are unable to find a new identity in reunited Germany. Since 1989, more than 250,000 border guards, high officers of the National People's Army and "Stasi" officers not only lost their jobs, but also their homeland and their identities. They all did what they were told to do with confidence that it was the right thing. Nonetheless, they were in a dilemma: being faithful to their oath also meant to spy on their neighbors and—as a last consequence—harm their own people, trying to escape to the West.

Filmmaker Signe Astrup is scheduled to appear in person!

Co-presented by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.