Meier 38 years old
Light comedy with the joke on Honecker
Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.
Credits
Meier Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Klaus Münster He was 50, now 89 years old | as Grenzbeamter |
| Tamara Rohloff She was 25, now 63 years old | as Hübsche |
| Dagmar Biener She was 39, now 78 years old | as Moni |
| Edith Teichmann She was 59, 91 years old when she died | as Tante Inge |
| Dieter Hildebrandt He was 58, 86 years old when he died | as Kellner |
| Wolfgang Nusche | as Onkel Werner |
| Nadja Engelbrecht She was 25, now 63 years old | as Nadja |
| Thomas Bestvater He was 27, now 66 years old | as Erwin |
| Joachim Kemmer He was 46, 60 years old when he died | as Kretschmer |
| Horst Pinnow He was 50, now 88 years old | as Kuno |
| Susanne Schiffmann-Grabe | as Ulla |
| Johanna Karl-Lory She was 84, 95 years old when she died | as Oma Krause |
| Rainer Grenkowitz He was 30, now 68 years old | as Meier |
| Alexander Hauff He was 28, now 66 years old | as Kalle |
| René Grams | as Klausi |
| Eberhard Prüter He was 41, 69 years old when he died | as Beamter |
Meier Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Klaus Eichhammer as Camera Department Manager. He was 33 (now 72) years old | Camera |
| Peter Timm as Director. He was 35 (now 74) years old | Directing |
| Peter Timm as Screenplay. He was 35 (now 74) years old | Writing |
Meier (38 years)
Light comedy with the joke on Honecker
- Release day: Thursday, May 22, 1986
- Runtime: 95 minutes