Crossing the Skies - From East-Berlin around the World
Director Undine Siepker
Countries
Duration 72 min
Synopsis
Welcome aboard INTERFLUG, the only airline of the former German Democratic Republic! Fasten your seatbelts on this turbulent flight through the lives of an East-German flight crew. Four stewardesses and one pilot look back at a time when crossing borders between East and West was the privilege of only a few. With their western adventures and outsider-perspective on GDR-life, they experience the fall of the Berlin Wall differently: Like a hard landing when Interflug was shut down in 1991, but also like a head-start into a self-determined life. How did they manage? Head in the clouds or feet back on the ground - Where do they stand today?
Welcome aboard INTERFLUG, the only airline of the former German Democratic Republic! Fasten your seatbelts on this turbulent flight through the lives of an East-German flight crew. Four stewardesses and one pilot look back at a time when crossing borders between East and West was the privilege of only a few. With their western adventures and outsider-perspective on GDR-life, they experience the fall of the Berlin Wall differently: Like a hard landing when Interflug was shut down in 1991, but also like a head-start into a self-determined life. How did they manage? Head in the clouds or feet back on the ground - Where do they stand today?