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Jun 11, 2017jimg2000 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Absorbing drama and brilliant writing on East Germany in 1980 when the young shoot of change had begun to pry at Stasi's grip on the people of German Democratic Republic (quote: But people are so much more than just friends or enemies) and there was the disruptive love between the son of a Stasi officer and the daughter of a dissident singer (quote: What else can be enough, if not love?.) An excellent write up in The Guardian: Kate Connolly Saturday 2 October 2010 19.07 EDT It has been dubbed a cold war Romeo and Juliet and drawn huge television audiences in Germany since its launch in mid-September. So popular is the TV drama about life in communist East Germany – which critics say provides the first sympathetic portrayal of the lives of East Germans since reunification 20 years ago – that many believe it will outperform American hit series Mad Men, which opens on German television next month. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/03/weissensee-german-reunification-gdr-stasi