Overview

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.

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Cast

Katharina Wackernagel

Elke Richter

Peter Schneider

Gregor Pohl

Katharina Spiering

Juliane Richter

Sebastian Nakajew

Frank Hartung

Tilmar Kuhn

Grenzer

Robert Mika

Kellner