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Meier

Meier

Light comedy with the joke on Honecker

1986 1h 35mComedyFamily

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.

2.7/5

TMDB score· 7 votes

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.

The vibe

berlin, germanygermanyeast berlinhistoricaleast germanypolitical satire

Behind it

Peter TimmDirector

Cast

Rainer GrenkowitzRainer GrenkowitzMeier
Nadja EngelbrechtNadja EngelbrechtNadja
Alexander HauffAlexander HauffKalle
Thomas BestvaterThomas BestvaterErwin
René GramsKlausi
Dieter HildebrandtDieter HildebrandtKellner
Johanna Karl-LoryOma Krause
Joachim KemmerJoachim KemmerKretschmer
Dagmar BienerDagmar BienerMoni
Klaus MünsterKlaus MünsterGrenzbeamter
Wolfgang NuscheOnkel Werner
Horst PinnowHorst PinnowKuno
Eberhard PrüterBeamter
Tamara RohloffTamara RohloffHübsche
Susanne Schiffmann-GrabeUlla
Edith TeichmannEdith TeichmannTante Inge

Director

Peter Timm

Writer

Peter Timm

Release date

22 May 1986

Runtime

1h 35m

Language

German

Country

Germany

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