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Heimatkunde(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-10-01
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Time: 1h 34m
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Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.
Languages: German.
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Movie: Heimatkunde
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Former "Titanic" satire magazine editor Martin Sonneborn takes an undercover trip around Berlin and discovers the East-German mentality and what is left of the socialist German Democratic Republic.
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2008-10-01
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