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10/3/2007
This TV movie focuses on an average East German citizen, who accidentally becomes a Cold War victim. Shortly before his wedding day, East German Stephan Busemann goes to West Germany to attend his brother Hubert's fiftieth birthday. At the same time, his son Martin and his daughter-in-law Bettina flee their communist home country in a balloon, what Stephan didn't know. As the East Germans believe he helped them to escape, he isn't allowed to return, so Martin writes a letter to the country's leader Erich Honecker. However, now the West Germans think that Stephan is a spy.

Wolfgang Stumph
as Stephan Busemann

Katrin Sass
as Eva Linde

Jürgen Tarrach
as Hubert Busemann

Steffen Groth
as Martin Busemann

Winnie Böwe
as Bettina Busemann

Bernd Michael Lade
as Kurt Hempel

Franziska Troegner
as Renate Giering

Udo Schenk
as Stasi-Mitarbeiter Strassmann

Rolf Kanies
as Anwalt Dr. Spies

Peter Fitz
as CPD-Vorsitzender Wilfried Ahlert

Günter Junghans
as SED-Genosse Scholz

Bruno F. Apitz
as Metzger
Benjamin Morik
as BND-Beamter Scharschmidt

Herbert Olschok
as Volkspolizist Willi

Otmar Richter