Lieber Thomas
Dear Thomas | Caro Thomas
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Biopic on the writer Thomas Brasch, one of the most controversial intellectuals and artists of the 20th century Germany. The film follows him from his youth in East Germany, through his struggles against the oppression of the socialist regime, to his voluntary exile in the West. Through his journey, we discover the tensions between the desire for artistic freedom and the rigid political and familial expectations, exploring the price of dissidence and creativity in an authoritarian context. Supported by a screenplay full of penetrating dialogues and moments of strong emotional impact, the film leads us to reflect on the struggle for personal and artistic freedom in a world of restrictions and censorship.
DIRECTORY
Freelance writer and director for cinema and television, four-time winner of the Grimme Preis, born in East Berlin in 1962, Andreas Kleinert began as a toolmaker and did some manual work at the DEFA studios, the East German film association before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the 1980s he studied directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf“ in Potsdam-Babelsberg; in the same school he will begin teaching feature film directing in 2006. His films are selected, among the other, in Cannes (1999, with Paths in the Night), in Venice (in 2007 with Head Under Water), in Berlin (in 2010 with Boundaries).
