Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...

• DEFA
• Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
• Peter Reusse
• Dieter Mann
• Jenny Gröllmann
• Ulrich Thein
• Angelika Waller
• Erwin Geschonneck
• Jaecki Schwarz