All for Love (3/6)

All for Love (3/6)

Martin and Julia apply for a joint flat and strike lucky: the woman at the housing office turns a blind eye. She can offer them both a place. But one call from Hans is enough to have the flat taken away from them again. Following his collapse in the cell, Robert Schnyder is admitted to hospital in a hypoglaecemic coma. Falk has to reckon on receiving the consequences of his special interrogation methods. But although the Schnyder Case does cause difficulties in foreign relations, Falk receives recognition from Gaucke, his superior at the Ministry. Against Hans' will, he is given a free hand in the Hausmann Case. He immediately has Dunja's flat bugged. Hans' protests against the surveillance have no affect. When the West Berlin music agent Meigold, who has suggested Dunja release a record in the West, produces an LP with her in her flat, it is recorded twice at the same time: once by Meigold and once by the Stasi. Falk, who is unable to accept his brother's love for Julia and fears consequences at the Ministry as well as for the family, persuades Martin's ex-wife Marion to use their joint daughter Lisa as a means to exert pressure to win Martin back. This leads Marion to withdrawing child visitation rights from her ex-husband as long as he is with Julia. Martin is desperate, believing he has to decide between Lisa and Julia, and knows that in the end he has no choice but to separate from Julia. When Marion goes to collect her daughter from day-nursery, the girl has already set off for home on her own: she wants to go to her father. Marion raises the alarm. The family panics: a sex offender is active in the area and could have come across the girl. Martin immediately organises a large-scale action to find his daughter.

Taking its name from the locality in the then divided city that houses the notorious Stasi secret police-run Hohenschönhausen prison, the series tells of young police officer Martin, from a loyal Party family, who falls in love with the beautiful young and rebellious Julia, from a family of dissidents: a Romeo & Juliet saga of two lovers struggling against prejudices and the social and political odds.

Grimme Award 2016
German Screen Actors Award 2014
German TV Award 2011 for Best Series
Nominated for Prix Europa 2011  
The first 6 episodes to be screened at Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) New York in April 2011.

PRESS REVIEWS

• Family saga Weissensee recounts what life in East Germany was like, in a DALLAS style. (Der Spiegel, Sept. 13, 2010)
  
• Weissensee (...) is simply a well-made drama, which profits from a tight story arc, a superb cast and terrific set design. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2010)
  
• Behind the surface story of two families in 1980s Socialist East Germany - replete with romance, intrigue and betrayal - a piece of real life emerges: authentic, dramatic. (Welt Online, Sept. 14, 2010)
  
• A courageous effort - which pays off handsomely. Beneath the soap opera plot, a complex web of desires and wishes emerges, of self-deception and patronizing. (Spiegel Online, Sept. 14, 2010)
  
• A highly original TV series. (Leipziger Volkszeitung, Sept. 6, 2010)
  
• Germany's biggest newspaper BILD headlined "The most spectacular TV series of the year." (Sept. 11, 2010)