In April 1961, in Dresden, the teenager Siggi (Max Riemelt) meets the aspirant poetess Luise (Jessica Schwarz) in a park and falls in love with her. He befriends her husband, the womanizer worker Wolle (Ronald Zehrfeld), to be close to Luise. Siggi smuggles porcelain objects that belonged to his parents to West Berlin to sell and make money to go to a night-club with Wolle and his friends.
Meanwhile, the totalitarian system increases repression against the youngsters, forcing them to delate their friends and Wolle is arrested by the dictatorial regime. Siggi publishes the Luise's poems and she is arrested. Siggi assumes the blame to release Luise but when he is chased by the Stasi, he summons Luise to go with him to the West Germany. Luise promises to meet him but first she would bring Wolle with her. But on 13 August 1961, the German Democrat Republic begins to build the Berlin Wall.
"Der Rote Kakadu" is an unattainable love story having the historical moment of the physical division of Berlin as background. The triangle of love among Siggi, Luise and Wolle is weird and the story is too long and could be shorter. Along the romance, the director discloses how the dictatorial regime acted especially with the youths. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Um Amor Além do Muro" ("A Love Beyond the Wall")
Meanwhile, the totalitarian system increases repression against the youngsters, forcing them to delate their friends and Wolle is arrested by the dictatorial regime. Siggi publishes the Luise's poems and she is arrested. Siggi assumes the blame to release Luise but when he is chased by the Stasi, he summons Luise to go with him to the West Germany. Luise promises to meet him but first she would bring Wolle with her. But on 13 August 1961, the German Democrat Republic begins to build the Berlin Wall.
"Der Rote Kakadu" is an unattainable love story having the historical moment of the physical division of Berlin as background. The triangle of love among Siggi, Luise and Wolle is weird and the story is too long and could be shorter. Along the romance, the director discloses how the dictatorial regime acted especially with the youths. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Um Amor Além do Muro" ("A Love Beyond the Wall")