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1989 Berlin, Seoul Now

2021 · 1h 29m · Documentary

Watch this tonight if you're hungry for a thoughtful, unconventional documentary that draws unexpected parallels between two pivotal moments in modern history. It's a uniquely intimate angle on geopolitics—following three real people who lived through reunification and are now watching another divided nation from the outside—and that perspective alone makes it worth your time.

Plot

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Andreas, Marc, and Sonya, as young people at the time, had to face the sudden unification head-on. After leaving Germany, they are currently living in Korea as a pianist, a film production manager, and a researcher at Samsung Electronics respectively. When a mood of reconciliation between South and North Korea is developing in 2018, they are hopeful that they may face a second reunification. They come to think that North and South Korea of today bears subtle resemblance to East and West Germany in 1989 beyond time and space···.

Director: Choi Woo-young

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