This is the story of Renate who grew up behind the Iron Curtain near Potsdam. Political suppression forced her to leave East Germany. She fled together with her husband in the trunk of a car. The escape was successful but she lost everything and she could not take her daughter with her because of the danger ending up in prison or getting shot. The daughter had to stay with her grandparents. The beginning in the West was very difficult; she lost her husband to another woman and was not able to find employment in her movie profession as location manager and production assistant. Out of options...
This is the story of Renate who grew up behind the Iron Curtain near Potsdam. Political suppression forced her to leave East Germany. She fled togethe...