Events

Germany, 1992, 87 min., 35mm, Director: Helmut Dziuba, Cast: Kristin Scheffer, René Guß, Julia Brendler, Peter Sodann

His parents left Jan behind in East Germany. When he tries to escape to West Germany, he gets caught and sent to a reformatory. There, Jan meets Jana and what starts as a game becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control, just as 1990 begins….

Helmut Dziuba was born in Dresden, East Germany, in 1933. He studied directing at the Film Academy in Moscow, Russia, where he also worked as a journalist and director. In 1968, he began to work as a director at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films. Dziuba lives in Berlin.