Release Date

11 Nov, 2021

Runtime

02:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.

Original Title

Lieber Thomas

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Actors

Albrecht Schuch

Jella Haase

Ioana Iacob

Jörg Schüttauf

Anja Schneider

Joel Basman

Emma Bading

Peter Kremer

Paula Hans

Adrian Julius Tillmann

Dennis Vehlen

Claudio Magno

Zoë Valks

Marlen Ulonska

Matthias Bundschuh

Andreas Leupold

Matthew Burton

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Christian Kuchenbuch

Lilli Fichtner

Thomas Lawinky

Crew

Andreas Kleinert

Thomas Wendrich

Myrna Wolff

Anne-Gret Oehme

Karen Wendland

Gisela Zick

Johann Feindt

Daniel Michael Kaiser

Till Derenbach

Michael Souvignier

Uta Spikermann

Grit Kosse