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A group of critical students are working conspirativly. Nevertheless, the state security in the GDR was informed about them and their activities. Thousand pages of different files make it possible to reconstruct, what happened these days. On this, the Film shows the memories of the involved, the victims, but also of the snitch, who tells his reasons in front of the camera. The story of the movie deals with friendship, love, betrayal and the failed dream of a better socialism. The author of the book and the film, Inga Wolfram will present the film with two in the story involved people, Wolfram Templin and Wolfgand Nitsche.

During summer 1986, the student Michael Magercorn from West Berlin took more than 100 photos of the undergroundstation “Friedrichstraße”. These pictures show the common activities on this station, which was the border between West Berlin and East Berlin. It was forbidden to take pictures, so he hid his camera in a cigarette box. 24 years later, Magercord published his pictures for the first time in his illustrated book “Endstation Grenze”. On this evening, he will present his book and will show some pictures, which never have been published before. The author will describe how he manages it to take the pictures unter the bis pressure of this illegal act.