4x25min original German version, others on request • Republikflucht • Die Unfall-Lüge • Schwestern im Westen • Spurensuche
Synopsis
September 1979: The Stasi finds an abandoned tent on a campsite on the island of Rügen. Shortly afterwards, a body is caught in the net of a fishing boat off Cape Arkona. It soon becomes clear that five people have drowned while trying to escape across the Baltic Sea to Denmark: Two brothers with their wives and a small child. This four-part docu-series reconstructs the days and weeks leading up to the failed escape attempt from different perspectives and it recounts what happened in the years after this tragedy.
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