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Love across the wall in Timm's Liebe Mauer

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East-German director Peter Timm – winner of numerous awards, including for Meier (1986) and My Brother is a Dog (2004) – is currently shooting his latest, self-penned film Liebe Mauer ("Dear Wall") in the city of Halle (Saxony-Anhalt).

As its title suggests, the film – produced by Hamburg-based Relevant Film in co-production with Cologne’s Tradewind – takes an ironic look at the history of divided Germany.

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Sascha (Maxim Mehmet, who starred in The Red Baron in 2008) has joined the GDR army for three years for the sole purpose of gaining a place at medical school. Franzi (Felicitas Woll, seen in Berlin, Berlin) is a bold young West German woman who is having difficulty paying her rent.

When these two protagonists fall in love and arrange secret meetings, both the Stasi and the CIA believe they are seeing the beginnings of a revolt, while the Berlin Wall starts to tremble.

Liebe Mauer received backing from the FFA and DFFF federal funds, the MDM regional fund and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund. The film will be released domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany in 2010.

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(Translated from French)

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