Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
as Commander
as Young Karl
as Robert Wagner
as Jutta Huth
as Materna
as Hanna
as Willi Lenz
as Wilfried Zank
as Kilian (segment "Materna")
