West (2013) — drama film. Directed by Christian Schwochow. Starring Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Alexander Scheer, Jacky Ido. This page maps 9 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A tense Cold War thriller exploring trauma, surveillance, and the cost of survival as a woman escapes East Germany and confronts her past.
Drama · 6.1/10 · 102 min · 2013
East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
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