Directors: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Actors: Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Tom Schilling, Cai Cohrs, Ina Weisse, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Hanno Koffler, Oliver Masucci, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Jeanette Hain, Jörg Schüttauf German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.