Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand
Directed by Oliver Dommenget
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Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this development. When one of the residents accidentally learns of a secret plan from the SED district leadership, which reveals that all unruly residents are to be forcibly relocated in just a few days, the people of Böseckendorf spontaneously decide to flee en masse. But can an entire village escape the GDR state power unnoticed overnight?Read moreLess
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this development. When one of the residents accidentally learns of a secret plan from the SED district leadership, which reveals that all unruly residents are to be forcibly relocated in just a few days, the people of Böseckendorf spontaneously decide to flee en masse. But can an entire village escape the GDR state power unnoticed overnight?
The story
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this development. When one of the residents accidentally learns of a secret plan from the SED district leadership, which reveals that all unruly residents are to be forcibly relocated in just a few days, the people of Böseckendorf spontaneously decide to flee en masse. But can an entire village escape the GDR state power unnoticed overnight?
Cast & crew
Anna LoosTonia Lantz
Thure RiefensteinManfred 'Manni' Lantz
Andreas PietschmannHarald Bittmann
Johannes BrandrupRobert Grewe
Horst JansonPfarrer
Rebecca ImmanuelJutta Marx
David C. BunnersDr. Walter Berger
Marie GruberElisabeth 'Elli' Schmidt
Esther ZimmeringChrista
Rainer PiwekKarl
Annika KuhlBea Radler
Wolfgang PackhäuserGünther SchmidtExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Georgij Pestov
- Director
- Oliver Dommenget
- Original Music Composer
- Jörg Rausch
- Screenplay
- Thomas Pauli
- Screenplay
- Daniel Maximilian
- Editor
- Ingo Recker