Thoughts Are Free Movie Review 1984

A young soldier, wounded in WWII, escapes from the train that is transporting him and his comrades to a Soviet labor camp and rejoins his family. Under the repressive communist regime, he plots his family's escape to the West but his plans are thwarted when the Berlin Wall is erected, leaving him in the West and his wife and daughter in the East. As the years go by, they can get together only by outwitting the bureaucrats. The film's title is taken from an old German folk song "Die Gedanken sind frei."

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Red Scare

Cast

Herbert Ludwig, Kathrin Kratzer

Director

Josef Sommer

Producer

ZDF-TV