50 minSeason 4 • Episode 6
LatestWeissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.
Acting
Katrin Sass brings devastating gravitas as the scrutinized singer.
Production
Meticulous East Berlin recreation — they rebuilt the damn Wall.
Writing
Stasi bureaucracy as gripping as any car chase.
Creator
Friedemann Fromm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Stasi headquarters scenes were filmed in the actual former Stasi building, now a museum — actors reportedly found the atmosphere genuinely unsettling.
The series became unexpectedly popular in unified Germany for sparking intergenerational conversations about complicity — many viewers watched with parents who'd lived through the GDR.
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