After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Episodes
Episode 1
Germany, 1945. In a small provincial town on the Thuringian-Bavarian border, people are waiting for the war to end. Young aristocrat Anna must take charge of the family estate.
Episode 2
1946. Tannbach is chucked between the hands of the Americans and Russians, and the lives of those who live there are all thrown into doubt.
Episode 3
1948. After the Americans advance too far, the Russians take back control and with them comes a new regime. The divided town is thrown into disarray when they begin work on the policy of dispossession - reassigning the land owned by the few to the many. Is the approach too hard-lined, or will it win over the people of Tannbach? Residents try to organize their lives under the new conditions.
Top Cast
Henriette Confurius
Anna Erler
Heiner Lauterbach
Georg von Striesow
Martina Gedeck
Hilde Vöckler
Peter Schneider
Adolph Herrmann
Jonathan Berlin
Walter Imhoff
Alexander Held
Franz Schober
Rainer Bock
Robert Leonhardt
Florian Brückner
Heinrich Schober
Mercedes Müller
Christa Schober
Johanna Bittenbinder
Kathi Schober
