It is rare that a visit to the local bar provides one's career a decisive boost. But when young East German film student Volker Koepp stumbled into the pub in the sleepy settlement of Wittstock four decades ago, he found it full of dancing young women, winding down after their shifts at a sprawling textile factory in the village.
Over the years, that factory became the focus of a series of Koepp's films, giving a unique glimpse into quotidian East German life in the 1970s and '80s. And now, with his film "Berlin-Stettin," which is currently showing in German cinemas, Koepp shows how his characters are coping with their new lives, 20 years after German reunification.
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