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Summer 1988: The twins Isa and Doreen are allowed to attend a training camp at Lake Balaton in Hungary as promising young athletes of the GDR. There they meet two boys from Hamburg - Arne and Nico.

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Summer 1988: The twins Isa and Doreen are allowed to attend a training camp at Lake Balaton in Hungary as promising young athletes of the GDR. There they meet two boys from Hamburg - Arne and Nico. The vacation flirtation soon turns into something more and Arne suggests that the inseparable sisters flee the GDR together.

A teenage love story based on a real story that comes across as light and cheerful despite its political background. Thalheim made the movie with the knowledge that we have today, namely, that a year later in 1989 the Wall would fall. After that, the crime of "Republikflucht", the defection from East Germany to the West no longer existed. 

Themes: GDR/German division, youth, (first) love.

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Students can:
  • understand film images and film dialogues
  • examine the film's content and information about the country
  • talk about it and express opinions
  • classify the themes of the film historically and develop them creatively
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  • Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English

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