Family Movie: Sputnik

A village in the GDR in the fall of 1989: Friederike is building a rocket with her beloved uncle Mike and two friends. Their cheerful space game is unexpectedly interrupted: Mike has applied for an exit visa and must leave the country within a few hours. Friederike is inconsolable over the loss, but, under the watchful eye of the village policeman, she wants to bring her uncle back and, together with her friends, develop a machine that will allow her to beam him back from the West to his old home. A children's film about the last weeks of the GDR.

Germany 2012/2013, directed and written by Markus Dietrich