West
She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
102 mins
East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
Polina Voskresenskaya
Jelena
Tatjana Berges
Jelenas Großmutter
Indre Bogdan
Frau mit roten Haaren
Tony Dunham
britischer Geheimdienstbeamter
Christian Ehrich
Beamter
Julia Franck
französische Geheimdienstmitarbeiterin
Jeanette Haas
Lagermitarbeiterin
Michael Lucke
Grenzbeamter
Hacky Rumpel
Nachbar
Lilja Seibicke
Jenny, Nachbars Tochter
Kerstin Thielemann
Sigrid
Mary van der Schors
Beamtin 2
Jens Wachholz
Wolfgang
Daniel Werner
Pfarrer
Tom Zahner
CIA-Agent Fleischmann
Svetlana Belesova
Gast im Café Bernstein
Thomas Kufus
Producer
Heide Schwochow
Screenplay
Frank Lamm
Director of Photography
Julia Franck
Novel
Stefanie Groß
Producer
Barbara Buhl
Producer
Georg Steinert
Producer
Cooky Ziesche
Producer
Jens Klüber
Editor
Uta Seibicke
Casting
Jan Müller
Art Direction
Iulia Mitzner
Assistant Art Director
Tim Pannen
Production Design
Kristin Schuster
Costume Design
Christiane Hoyer
Assistant Costume Designer
Inés Burger
Script Supervisor
Christian Graf
First Assistant Camera
Johannes Mielsch
First Assistant Camera
Rolf Rosendahl
First Assistant Camera
Julia Terjung
Still Photographer
Sebastian Daszkiewicz
Gaffer
Daniel Iribarren
ADR & Dubbing
Rainer Heesch
Sound Designer
Tobias Fleig
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Wolfgang Böge
Makeup Artist
Beatrix John
Makeup Artist
Ragna Jornitz
Makeup Artist
Michael Seel
Makeup Artist
Thomas Frankenberg
Property Master
Michael Kalden
Property Master
Günther Mairiedl
Digital Intermediate
Lorenz Dangel
Original Music Composer