Meier

Light comedy with the joke on Honecker

APPROPIATE

1986 / 95min.

Rating4.3

Genres

Comedy

Family

Synopsis

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.

Directors

Actors

Dieter Hildebrandt

Klaus Münster

Dagmar Biener

Horst Pinnow

Rainer Grenkowitz

Tamara Rohloff

Joachim Kemmer

Nadja Engelbrecht

Edith Teichmann

Thomas Bestvater

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