VORWÄRTS IMMER! photo copyright Nadja Klier

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...

photo © Nadja Klier
  • Genre
    Comedy
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • DIRECTOR
    Franziska Meletzky
  • SCREENPLAY
    Markus Thebe, Philipp Weinges, Günther Knarr, Franziska Meletzky
  • CAST
    Jörg Schüttauf, Josefine Preuß, Hedi Kriegeskotte, Jacob Matschenz, Steffen Scheumann, André Jung, Alexander Schubert, Stephan Grossmann, Devid Striesow
  • PRODUCERS
    Philipp Weinges, Günther Knarr
  • CO-PRODUCER
    Andreas Richter
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Crazy Film, in co-production with Roxy Film
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • SALES
    Beta Cinema
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