Meier

Story

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.

Director

Peter Timm

Writers

Peter Timm

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

22 May 1986

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Rainer Grenkowitz

  Meier

• 

  Nadja Engelbrecht

  Nadja

• 

  Alexander Hauff

  Kalle

• 

  Thomas Bestvater

  Erwin

• René Grams

  Klausi

• 

  Dieter Hildebrandt

  Kellner

• Johanna Karl-Lory

  Oma Krause

• 

  Joachim Kemmer

  Kretschmer

• 

  Dagmar Biener

  Moni

• 

  Klaus Münster

  Grenzbeamter

• Wolfgang Nusche

  Onkel Werner

• 

  Horst Pinnow

  Kuno