The Architects

The Architects

1990 · 102 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.

Directed by Peter Kahane · Written by Thomas Knauf

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Kurt Naumann Daniel Brenner
Rita Feldmeier Wanda Brenner
Uta Eisold Renate Reese
Werner Dissel Alter
Christoph Engel Ökonom Endler
Wolfgang Greese Günther Adam
Hans-Joachim Hegewald Albrecht Wischala
Karl-Ernst Horbol n.A.
Thomas Just
Markus Kissling n.A.
Roland Kuchenbuch n.A.
Ute Lubosch Franziska Scharf

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