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Released
2009 · FILM

Beyond the Wall

Directed by
Runtime
90 min
Language
DE
Drama

Synopsis

In September 1974, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two young children, are caught attempting to flee to West Germany at the Bösebrücke border crossing. As a consequence, the couple is given a difficult choice: they may leave East Germany with their seven-year-old son, Klaus, but their two-year-old daughter, Miriam, must be left behind and placed for adoption. If they refuse this arrangement, both parents will be imprisoned for a year, and both children will be taken from them. This real-life dilemma serves as the foundation for an emotional narrative that explores the intertwined fates of people in East and West Germany, culminating in the dramatic events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Eva SchnareShot by Hanno LentzScored by Stefan MertinDesigned by Frank Godt

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  • Beyond the Wallen

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