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The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.
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The life of people of the DDR is shown very realisticly. Jörg Hartmann did an amazing job playing Falk Kupfer.
A crying shame there aren't even English subtitles for this excellent series. Be the way, it gets really good in the second season.
Part, I repeat part of the brutality and corruption of the DDR regime is revealed in this high class soap opera. But love triumphs in the end, and some pretty creepy people redeem themselves. But rest assured, the excesses were intrinsic in the structure that was the artificial hothouse of East Germany. Who built this hothouse is not the subject of the series, and the two mainly responsible powers are not even mentioned.
Annoying, for me, is the piling up of contrived crises in the first season, but that's how the public generally wants it. In this respect "Breaking Bad" is no different.
Part, I repeat part of the brutality and corruption of the DDR regime is revealed in this high class soap opera. But love triumphs in the end, and some pretty creepy people redeem themselves. But rest assured, the excesses were intrinsic in the structure that was the artificial hothouse of East Germany. Who built this hothouse is not the subject of the series, and the two mainly responsible powers are not even mentioned.
Annoying, for me, is the piling up of contrived crises in the first season, but that's how the public generally wants it. In this respect "Breaking Bad" is no different.
God I loved this so much more than I thought I would. Please continue. I want to know more about every character. Every actor was phenomenal and the stories were compelling. That makes you want to learn a lot more about the GDR.
I never wrote a movie review before but I had to drop a few words about this wonderful series. I am very demanding when it comes to natural and convincing acting and I was deeply impressed buy the cast of Weissensee, specially Florian Lukas, Jörg Hartmann and Anna Loos. I also loved how the director took the time to take us deep into each character, by the end of the 4th season you felt like you really knew the deepest thoughts of every single one of them. I am very thankful to know now more about what really was going on in the DDR from the side of the people that went through it, and also so happy to keep discovering more and more great german actors. 10 deserved points and two big thumbs up for Weissensee!
We watched all four seasons on MHz and there are English subtitles. I would like to seen another season as only one of the recent story lines was concluded in Season 4 episode 4.
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