If you never have experienced a totalitarian society you are hereby welcome to live in the DDR 1974 for a month. The series in 6 (!) episodes cover the everyday lives of two Berlin families on both sides of The Iron Curtain. During this Summer Nixon was forced to resign after The Watergate, Der Rote Armé Fraction attracted young naive teenagers in the West and the youngs in the East were filled with false propaganda about socialist superiority and their athletes stuffed with chemicals to achieve the expected successes. The DDR shocked the world by beating the world champions to be, the BRD, in the opening rounds. This is a time document of great value, slow paced, with excellent acting, though used to our Western always happy ends this one affords no such. And it is a disappointment, though closer to reality.
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