Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.

• DirectorMarcus O. Rosenmüller
• Release9 August 2013
• Genre
  Romance / TV Movie
• Duration1h 28m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  3.4
  5 reviews
• Productions

  CineCentrum Berlin Film- und Fernsehproduktion, MDR, ARTE, ARD