Heart-on-sleeve reminiscence of the decades of a divided Berlin and most particularly a divided pair of sweethearts, one forced to do border-guard duty in the East ("Stop! Don't move or I'll shoot!"), the other free to toil for her fashion-designing aunt in the West. They are reunited in Prague in 1968, just in time to be divided again by the Soviet invasion. Later, around 1980, the young actors turn over their roles to older actors, and we seem to have entered another movie, albeit with the same soupy soundtrack. Faintly Frank Borzage-esque in the focus on Little People amid Larger Events, but without the warmth, the tenderness, the romanticism, the idealism, etc. With Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Anian Zollner, and Eva Mattes; directed by Margarethe von Trotta. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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