VORWÄRTS IMMER!

Franziska Meletzky returns to the former GDR during the autumn of 1989 for her third feature, the comedy VORWÄRTS IMMER! which — appropriately — began shooting in Berlin on 9 November, the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. East German actor Otto Wolf has a lot on his plate: his daughter Anne has ignored her father’s wishes by setting off to Leipzig to obtain a fake passport to leave for the West — just as party chief Erich Honecker is planning a “Chinese solution” to suppress the Monday demonstrations. Sick with worry about his daughter, Otto uses his gift of being a dead ringer for Honecker to stop the tanks and save Anne. But he hadn’t reckoned with also having to get to know Margot Honecker up close and personal...