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Henry, a former professional boxer, is searching fruitlessly for new beginnings in post-war Berlin. One day, he falls out of an overcrowded train and lands, injured, near an abandoned train car where Xenia, a struggling bar hostess, lives.
GDR, 99 min., color
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Working-class athlete Richard Bertram (Günther Simon) is a talented wrestler whose political beliefs get him into trouble. When his club is dissolved by the Nazis, Richard continues to wrestle in a middle-class club, using his position to support the resistance movement.
GDR, 90 min., b&w
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A film about five thirteen-year-old street children who have had to grow up too soon, shot in Berlin during Christmas 1992.
Germany, 83 min., b&w