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Kleinruppin Forever (2004)

Kleinruppin Forever poster
Original title
Kleinruppin forever
Directed by
Carsten Fiebeler
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
6
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1985 a West German teenager on a school trip to East Germany discovers he has an identical twin brother. The twin switches places with him, so each boy experiences the other's very different life and falls in love along the way.

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What happens

Kleinruppin forever is a German romantic comedy film, released in late 2004. The film is set in 1985 and stars Tobias Schenke as Tim Winter, a West German teenager from Bremen with aspirations of being a professional tennis player. On a school trip to East Germany, Tim meets his identical twin brother Ronny (also played by Tobias Schenke). Ronny switches places with Tim, forcing Tim to experience life and love in East Germany. The film can be seen as part of the Ostalgie movement, similar to the films Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) and Sonnenallee (1999), which look back nostalgically at life in East Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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