Mission Sputnik
After 20 years, SPUTNIK eventually tells the truth about November 9, 1989.
Fall 1989: No one suspects that these are the last days of a small country. Especially in the contemplative village of Malkow, in the middle of the German Democratic Republic, everything is going its usual way – the socialist way.
At least at first glance. In the shadows, though, 10 year old Rike together with her friends Fabian and Jonathan is working on a spectacular invention, that will change the world, or at least beam back her uncle Mike from West-Berlin to Eastern Germany: a beam machine.
What they don’t suspect, the parents of Rike also plan to leave the GDR. And the policeman Mauder, a true comrade of the government, is already hard on the heels of the inventive three friends.
The plot thickens when the experiment takes an unexpected turn on November 9, 1989: it is not Mike, who lands back in Malkow, but the villagers on the Berlin Wall. Did the children accidentally change the world?
- Director
- Markus Dietrich
- Author
- Markus Dietrich
- Cast
- Flora Li Thiemann, Finn Fiebig, Luca Johannsen u.a.
- Production
- Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab (ostlicht filmproduktion)
- Co-production
- Hamster Film, A Private View, negativ film productions
- Broadcaster
- MDR, NDR
- Funding
- MDM, FFA, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, DFFF, Tschechische Filmförderung, Belgian Tax Shelter, Eurimages.
- Distributor
- MFA+ Filmdistribution
- Worldsales
- attraction distribution
- Release Germany
- 2013