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Westwind (2011)
Directed by Robert Thalheim
Drama, Comedy, Romance · 1h 29m
Set in the Summer of 1988 and based on real events, the film tells the story of East-German twins Isabel and Doreen, two aspiring oarswomen, whose lives are changed dramatically during a training camp at Lake Balaton in Hungary. There, the girls make the acquaintance of West-German friends Arne and Nico. The holiday flirt soon turns serious when Doreen and Arne fall in love. As the end of their stay approaches, Arne asks the inseparable sisters to flee to the West with him…
Cast
Friederike Becht
Luise Heyer
Franz Dinda
Volker Bruch
Hannes Wegener
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Albrecht Schuch
Golo Euler
Ole Fischer
Crew
- Director
- Robert Thalheim
- Screenplay
- Ilja Haller, Susann Schimk
- Director of Photography
- Eeva Fleig
- Original Music Composer
- Christian Conrad
- Editor
- Stefan Kobe, Christoph Sturm, Oliver Grothoff
Details
- Release date
- 2011-08-25
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- Hungarian, German
- Countries
- Germany, Hungary
- Production
- credofilm, Laokoon Filmgroup, ARTE, ZDF