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Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
general audience, movie lovers
german democratic republic, love affair, east germany
Germany
asElke Richter
asGregor Pohl
asJuliane Richter
asHelmut Richter
asFrank Hartung
asYoung Lover (voice)
asGrenzer
asJunger Tscheche
asKellner
asZollbeamter
asPassant
asHotelangestellte
asBarbara
asGeldwechslerin
asRezeptionist
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