Familie Brasch

In the years after 1945, the Braschs were a perfect family of functionaries, living the German dream of socialism in the Soviet-occupied zone: Horst Brasch, a passionate anti-fascist and Jewish Catholic, helped build up the GDR, although his wife Gerda never became at home in it. His son Thomas becomes a literary star. Like his father, he dreams of a fairer world, but like his younger brothers Peter and Klaus, he is critical of real existing socialism. 1968 saw the beginning of the generation conflict in the GDR, as everywhere else. Father Brasch hands over the rebellious son Thomas to the authorities - and thus also initiates the end of his own career. After 1989, socialist dreams of any kind are worth nothing. In her new film, director Annekatrin Hendel ("Traitor to the Fatherland", "Anderson") portrays three generations of Brasch, who carry the tensions of history within their own families - between East and West, art and politics, communism and religion, love and betrayal, utopia and self-destruction. She meets the sole survivor of the clan, Marion Brasch, as well as numerous confidants, lovers and friends, among them the actress Katharina Thalbach, the poet Christoph Hein, the songwriter Bettina Wegner and the artist Florian Havemann. "Familie Brasch" is a panorama of time that makes history tangible as family history, an epic about the decline of the "Red Nobility", a "Buddenbrooks" in GDR edition.