Divided Berlin, 1950s: 13-year-old Kalle lives with his family in Wedding in the Western Sector of the city.
A story about an encounter between a young Turkish guest worker living in West Berlin and an East Berlin girl, a few days after the Wall is opened.
A young, naive and enthusiastic director comes to a provincial town in East Germany to put on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the local theater. Although the lethargic company shows no interest in the play, he remains undaunted.
The first science-fiction film brought out in East Germany, The Silent Star is based on Stanislaw Lem's mysterious novel, The Astronauts (1951).
Unlike his assistant Joachim Peters (Raimund Schelcher), who is sent to a concentration camp for his political beliefs, Professor Sonnenbruck (Eduard von Winterstein) refuses to get involved in politics and focuses entirely on his research.
Jutta Huth (Jenny Gröllmann) is shocked when her parents announce they want to flee to West Berlin "in order to finally live," as her mother puts it. But the eighteen-year-old sees her future in the East, where she hopes to attend university and has just fallen in love.
A young couple—both actors—live and work in Berlin before the Wall is built. Agnes is on location in East Berlin and her husband Jochen works at the Westend Theater in West Berlin.