Leander Haußmanns Stasikomödie

Berlin, today: At the urging of his friends, his wife, children and grandchildren, Ludger Fuchs (Jörg Schüttauf) had decided to request access to his Stasi file. Today he is a prominent, indeed popular, novelist, yesterday he was a hero of the GDR resistance; he was thus inevitably under observation by the State Security. Ludger proudly presents the thick file to his assembled family. Everything was documented and commented on by the Stasi: his flat, his cat, even scenes with his wife Corinna (Margarita Broich) in the marriage bed... But then: "What is this?!" A letter torn up and glued back together, very detailed, very intimate.... It certainly wasn't from Corinna, and now Corinna wants to know exactly. Ludger rejects it: "But that was before your time..." But it's no use, the Stasi documented everything in detail.

Ludger angrily packs up his file and flees outside to escape the marital quarrel, which has become violent and noisy in the meantime. In front of the house he lights a cigarette and blows the smoke thoughtfully into the sun. And he remembers the young man (David Kross) whom the Stasi once recruited to immerse himself in the bohemian scene of Prenzlauer Berg, to scout it out and dissect it. And how he immediately liked the life there so much: the freedom, the women (and not just one!) that he soon forgot his mission...