1989-1990. General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachyov begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately wants to become a star in world politics and for this he is ready to go as far as he can to meet the West. But the perestroika planned by Gorbachyov leads to fatal, irreversible consequences. Intelligence officer Alexander Nechaev finds himself at the center of an operation organized by the intelligence services of several countries. During the months spent in Berlin at the moment of the breakdown of the entire post-war world order, Nechaev changed a lot. He no longer knows who is a friend and who is a traitor, but continues to defend the honor and interests of his Motherland...

Life in the GDR was not only documented on behalf of the state, but also by photographic artists and journalists. The documentary goes on a journey through time with some of them and shows little-known aspects of the GDR from its foundation to the fall of the Wall. Photographers in the GDR had a surprising amount of freedom; there was no explicit censorship of images. This allowed them to make visible what the state wanted to hide. This documentary presents two photographers who observed life in the GDR and whose work has been rediscovered in recent years.

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

故事在1989 年秋天在苏联展开。一个庞大的帝国正在接缝处爆裂，这座冰川即将冲破外交和军事联盟的大坝，冲下山来，扫除沿途的一切。涅恰耶夫上尉（戈尔巴托夫饰）在一次失败的特别行动后被迫重返队伍。在莫斯科，一位同事要求涅恰耶夫跟随柏林音乐厅的艺术家，他们能够将加密信息传输给美国记者。这项简单的任务推动了一个大故事，该故事将从东德柏林开始，全世界的情报部门将发生冲突。

In 1968, paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punish able by law was abolished in the German Democratic Republic. At first homosexuality was considered a negligible issue in 'real existing socialism'. The nuclear family constituted the center of social society. »Out in East Berlin« tells the various, impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians during socialistic GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their experiences on the path to a self-conscious, outed sexual identity share one specific perspective: They are accompanied by the watchful eye of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi). Even their actions in the bed room were recorded in innumerable personal files. Based on the homosexual perspective, filmmakers Jochen Hick and Andreas Strohfeldt elucidate the political picture of the GDR, in which citizens are monitored, spied upon and whose movements are restrained. In addition, they are called upon to betray one's own cause: homosexual emancipation. An exciting, fascinating and vivid portrait of society is created from impressive interviews, situational scenes and historical material never shown before. A film that especially today possesses actuality and explosiveness.

English narration & German dialogue with English subtitles where needed. This astonishing chronicle of the German Democratic Republic (or as we called it, East Germany) features illuminating interviews complimented by rare archival materials from film, photographs, posters, caricatures, popular songs and speeches. Former citizens both prominent and unknown reflect on cultural, economic, and political developments from the founding of the GDR in 1949 to German unification in 1990. This is the ultimate film history of events such as the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, economic stagnation, Stasi activity, and the popular upheavals that finally brought down the state. CHAPTER 1: I Was a Citizen of the GDR Former East German citizens -- from Holocaust survivors, to artists, officials, civil rights activists and ordinary people -- talk about their personal feelings, experiences, and attitudes toward the GDR. CHAPTER 2: From "Zone" to State Events the led up to the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 and the final division of the two German states. CHAPTER 3: From Economic Plan to Economic Collapse The development of the GDR's planned economy, from its beginnings to its failure. CHAPTER 4: For the People's Welfare "Unity of economic and social policy," the program of the SED (Socialist Unity Party), became the trademark of the Honecker era. CHAPTER 5: Intellect and Power The history of literature and the art in the GDR was punctuated by State repression; such breaks reveal contestation between intellectuals and state power in the GDR. CHAPTER 6: Shield and Sword From its founding in 1950, the Ministry for State Security and its political secret police (the Stasi) were the central instruments of domination; this "shield and sword of the Party," was seen as a defense against external and internal enemies. CHAPTER 7: We Are the People This was the chant of the thousands of protesters in the streets of Leipzig and other East German cities in the fall of 1989.