The Weissensee Saga - Season 4

The Weissensee Saga - Season 4

Between the fall of the Wall and German Reunification: Crime, guilt & punishment for Stasi agents, trying to cope with the collapse of the socialist economy, privatization and Western capitalism.

WEISSENSEE 4, 1990, Berlin.

The Berlin Wall has fallen, the Eastern Bloc has collapsed, the Stasi secret service has been stormed and disbanded. The whole power structure, in which the Kupfer family has lived and functioned in for 3 seasons, has been destroyed. All the family members have to adapt to the new, chaotic situation in East Berlin and find new or old jobs in these turbulent times.

Unlike Falk, his father Hans wants to face up to his Stasi past. His wife and former colleague Gaucke are against it. Gaucke blackmails him with an old file containing a well-kept family secret. Falk, who’s been in a wheelchair since his gunshot wound, falls in love with physiotherapist Petra in the hospital, a firm opponent of communism, so he does everything he can to hide his Stasi past.

Martin lives with reporter Katja and his daughters in West Berlin, finding a career as a cabinetmaker amid the catastrophic collapse of the Communist East, trying to save the furniture company from bankruptcy. Vera joins the state Holding Company, wanting to help the country make the transition to a free market economy, and has to decide over Martin’s fate as well. Görlitz and Nicole seem to have it better, warming to each other privately as well. But on a vacation to Mallorca, their past catches up to them…

The 4th season of the sweeping and gripping family saga set behind the Berlin Wall in the former East Germany and in the changing times of the fall of the Iron Curtain. German TV Award 2011, German Screen Actors Award 2014, Grimme Award 2016.