MI6's topagent, den hårdtslående isdronning Lorraine Broughton, sendes på mission til Berlin. Året er 1989, kort før Murens fald. Nogen har lavet en mikrofil, der kan afsløre samtlige vestlige agenter i Berlin. Mikrofilen må findes, men det er svært at vide, hvem man kan stole på i den paranoide krudttønde af en storby.
Østberlin, 1984. Den dybt loyale Stasi-Agent Wiesler. er fra højeste sted blevet beordret om at overvåge den intellektuelle forfatter Dreyman, og hans kæreste, Sieland, en kendt skuespillerinde, men finder snart ud af at ministeren kun søger snavs på Dreyman for selv at kunne få fingre i kæresten. Wiesler bliver mere og mere fascineret af deres liv, og bliver trukket længere ind end han burde.
DDR, 1979. I al hemmelighed arbejder familierne Strelzyk og Wetzel på at konstruere deres egen luftballon, som skal gøre det muligt for dem at flygte til friheden i vest. Det er en farlig og vovet plan, for sikkerhedstjenesten Stasi har informanter alle steder. Og da netop Stasi kommer på sporet af gruppen og deres plan, bliver familiernes flugt en kamp mod uret, hvor hvert sekund tæller.
I DDR i 1980 forflyttes den unge læge Barbara til et hospital i en lille kystby som straf for at have ansøgt om visum til Vesten. Hun er fast besluttet på at flygte, men Stasi overvåger hende konstant. Samtidig kan hun ikke greje sin nye chef, André. Hvad betyder hans omsorg? Er han stikker? Eller er han forelsket i hende? Barbara begynder at miste kontrollen. Over sine planer, over sig selv, over kærligheden.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.
Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
In April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. This documentary details the strange evidence recovered.
In 1990 the head of the Treuhand, Hans-Georg Dahlmann, was targeted by the RAF. When he made Sandra Wellmann, mother of one son, his assistant, he had no idea what additional danger he was exposing himself to. Because Wellmann is doing common cause with RAF members Bettina Pohlmann and Klaus Gelfert and is supposed to provide them with information for the planned attack on Dahlmann.
In 2014, Germany television network ZDF commissioned a comprehensive TV documentary on the history of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In six 45-minute parts, the series describes the origins, rise, and fall of the terrorist organization "Red Army Faction." Interviewees include Winfried Ridder, former head of department at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Rainer Hofmeyer, former head of department at the Federal Criminal Police Office; and political scientist Dr. Wolfgang Kraushaar.
