Movie: Meier

Top 10 Billed Cast

Rainer Grenkowitz
Rainer Grenkowitz

Meier

Nadja Engelbrecht
Nadja Engelbrecht

Nadja

Alexander Hauff
Alexander Hauff

Kalle

Thomas Bestvater
Thomas Bestvater

Erwin

René Grams
René Grams

Klausi

Dieter Hildebrandt
Dieter Hildebrandt

Kellner

Johanna Karl-Lory
Johanna Karl-Lory

Oma Krause

Joachim Kemmer
Joachim Kemmer

Kretschmer

Dagmar Biener
Dagmar Biener

Moni

Klaus Münster
Klaus Münster

Grenzbeamter

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    Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.

  • Release Date

    1986-05-22

  • Average

    5.6

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
  • Tagline

    Light comedy with the joke on Honecker

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  • Languages:

    Deutsch
  • Keywords

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