NVA

5.5

Germany

Comedy

94 min

2005

Kim Frank Steffi Kühnert Katharina Thalbach Stefan Konarske Hinnerk Schönemann Sven Hönig Ezard Haußmann Roman Kaminski Sebastian Soukup Paul Maaß Ralf Dittrich Uwe Dag Berlin Torsten Michaelis Oliver Bröcker Detlev Buck Jasmin Schwiers Annika Kuhl Ignaz Kirchner Maxim Mehmet Robert Gwisdek Philippe Graber Daniel Zillmann Thomas Brussig

Somewhere in the GDR, in 1988: young soldier Henrik Heidler starts his service in the National People's Army, a whole new world. Together with the weighty troublemaker Krüger, Heidler and his fellow soldiers try to somehow do their time between old hands and bureaucrats. It's not always fun, because the superiors are annoying with socialist propaganda from the day before yesterday, the material and equipment is scarce and not exactly new, while morale is at rock bottom. His relationship with his girlfriend isn't holding up either. But then Heidler meets Marie, the daughter of commander Kalt of all people, and falls in love. And then, at some point, the Wall comes down and everything changes ... for everyone in the NVA!