Heroes Like Us
A young East German man navigates love and loyalty in the 1980s, torn between his crush on a politically suspect girl and his father's demands that he join the Stasi secret police, all amid the surrea…
Heroes Like Us
A young East German man navigates love and loyalty in the 1980s, torn between his crush on a politically suspect girl and his father's demands that he join the Stasi secret police, all amid the surreal daily life behind the Iron Curtain. Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig's (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero's father, however, is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film. —GMeleJr
Heroes Like Us
Comedy
Film Details
A young East German man navigates love and loyalty in the 1980s, torn between his crush on a politically suspect girl and his father's demands that he join the Stasi secret police, all amid the surreal daily life behind the Iron Curtain. Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig's (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party.
Our hero's father, however, is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film.
—GMeleJr.