The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
Directed by Peter Kahane
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Cast
Kurt Naumann
Daniel Brenner
Rita Feldmeier
Wanda Brenner
Uta Eisold
Renate Reese
Werner Dissel
Alter
Christoph Engel
Ökonom Endler
Wolfgang Greese
Günther Adam
Hans-Joachim Hegewald
Albrecht Wischala
Karl-Ernst Horbol
n.A.
Thomas Just
Markus Kissling
n.A.
Roland Kuchenbuch
n.A.
Ute Lubosch
Franziska Scharf
Andrea Meissner
Barbara Schneider
Jörg Schüttauf
Wilfried Berger
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