Born in '45

Born in '45 is a 1966 East German drama film directed by Jürgen Böttcher. It was screened in the Berlinale Classics section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast Monika Hildebrand as Lisa Rolf Römer as Alfred Paul Eichbaum as Mogul Holger Mahlich as Hans Gesine Rosenberg as Rita Walter Stolp as Kaderleiter Werner Kanitz as Napoleon Ingo Koster as Heinz Anita Okon as Sylvi Ruth Kommerell as Mutter Richard Ruckheim as Opa Plot Alfred ("Al"), an auto mechanic and Lisa ("Li"), a pediatric nurse are a young married couple living in East Berlin during the summer of 1965. Both feel that their relationship is unfulfilling and arrange to get a divorce. While Li dutifully continues her work, Al chaffs under the on-the-job demands of his supervisors. Longing to escape the life-long drudgery his parents endured, he takes a short vacation, briefly rooms with his former motorcycle buddies, and finally moves in with his mother. Al forms a close friendship with the 70-year-old Mogul, a volunteer with the local residential housing commission who is sympathetic to the youngster's personal difficulties. Al's idleness leads to sheer boredom and he returns to his job. Socialist party administrators are troubled by his undisguised disaffection, labeling him a social "skeptic." The plant's political cadre take steps to correct his behavior on and off the job. Production