The Weissensee Saga

We watched all four seasons on MHz and there are English subtitles. I would like to seen another season as only one of the recent story lines was concluded in Season 4 episode 4.

A crying shame there aren't even English subtitles for this excellent series. Be the way, it gets really good in the second season.

Part, I repeat part of the brutality and corruption of the DDR regime is revealed in this high class soap opera. But love triumphs in the end, and some pretty creepy people redeem themselves. But rest assured, the excesses were intrinsic in the structure that was the artificial hothouse of East Germany. Who built this hothouse is not the subject of the series, and the two mainly responsible powers are not even mentioned.

Annoying, for me, is the piling up of contrived crises in the first season, but that's how the public generally wants it. In this respect "Breaking Bad" is no different.

First year's 6 episodes were hard to watch, because of mediocre acting and script. Keep in mind that it's set in the at that time very poor DDR. Second year is much more credible, with the same actors. Historically correct!

This gripping series does a magnificent job of showing the terrible human cost of the East German regime on the lives of families. The acting is uniformly excellent and there are many truly heart-rending scenes involving deceit and divided loyalties where individuals were forced to choose between their loyalty to family and their "duty" to the pathological state.

It starts in 1980, when the SED was at the height of its malignant power and focuses on the love affair between a young Volkspolizei officer and the daughter of a dissident songwriter. Needless to say, their love is highly disapproved of - not least by his brother (an ambitious Stasi officer).

Very highly recommended!

Ok, we admit to come clear... we did watched this serie in 3 days and now we have S3 to see. This is really a very good serie about how it was in those days.

Nobody could trust anyone. No one had any privacy.

This to keep the system without commercial market mechanisms etc intact. But by doing that, it corrupted the system itself. Inequality in powers is what one also can observe in todays world. Within corporations, etc.

All in all, go see this serie! Great acting, good directors work, good music, etc etc.

Also nice the way the set lights are done, old 80's style. Same with the cliff hanger stills and bits and props ...

For the last time; do see this great serie!