In the years after 1945, the Braschs were a perfect family of functionaries living the German dream of socialism in the Soviet-occupied zone: Horst Brasch, a passionate anti-fascist and Jewish Catholic, helped to build the GDR, although his wife Gerda never felt at home there. His son Thomas became a literary star and, like his father, dreamed of a fairer world, but like his younger brothers Peter and Klaus, was critical of actually existing socialism. In 1968, the generational conflict erupted in the GDR as it did everywhere else. Father Brasch handed his rebellious son Thomas over to the authorities - and in doing so also put an end to his own career. After 1989, socialist dreams of any kind are no longer worth anything.

In her new film, director Annekatrin Hendel ("Vaterlandsverräter", "Anderson") portrays three generations of Brasch, who deal with the tensions of history within their own family - between East and West, art and politics, communism and religion, love and betrayal, utopia and self-destruction. She meets the only survivor of the clan, Marion Brasch, as well as numerous confidants, lovers and friends, including the actress Katharina Thalbach, the poet Christoph Hein, the singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner and the artist Florian Havemann.
FAMILIE BRASCH is a panorama of the times that brings history to life as family history, an epic about the decline of the "red aristocracy", a "Buddenbrooks" in the GDR edition

Director: Annekatrin Hedel
With: Marion Brasch, Katharina Thalbach, Christoph Hein, Florian Havemann, Bettina Wegner, Ursula Andermatt, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Alexander Polzin, Petra Schramm, Lena Brasch, Jochen Fleischacker, Benjamin Schlesinger and others
Duration: 103 min
Age rating: FSK 6