Berlin, Boxhagener Platz

1968 in East Berlin: student riots and the sexual revolution in the West, Soviet tanks in Prague. Meanwhile, grandma Otti (Gudrun Ritter) and her twelve-year-old grandson Holger (Samuel Schneider) have their own very special adventures at East Berlin's Boxhagener Platz. Otti has already seen five husbands off to their maker and the sixth one is not long for this life when she receives advances from the old Nazi Fisch-Winkler (Horst Krause) and the former Spartacus fighter Karl Wegner (Michael Gwisdek). Otti falls in love with Karl and suddenly Fisch-Winkler is dead. Holger has the makings of an amateur sleuth and learns a lot in the process about love, the 1968 revolts and how one can win women over with "revolutionary" secrets. This all goes well until Holger makes a mistake which puts Karl of all people in danger....

The multi-award-winning Berlin director Matti Geschonneck, who grew up on Boxhagener Platz, filmed the literary adaptation BOXHAGENER PLATZ in Leipzig, Halle and Potsdam-Babelsberg from March to May 2009. Published by Ullstein Verlag, the book of the same name is the highly praised debut novel by Torsten Schulz.

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