Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
Directed by
Gerhard Klein, Ulrich Thein, Frank Vogel, Karl-Heinz Carpentier
Written by
Hartwig Strobel, Frank Vogel, Ulrich Thein, Helmut Baierl, Gerhard Klein, Erik Neutsch, Werner Bräunig, Karl-Heinz Carpentier