Dear Thomas
Lieber Thomas
Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize himself as a writer and in doing so discovers his potential as a poetic rebel. His very first play was banned and soon afterwards he lost his place at the film school. When the tanks of the Soviet Union roll through the Czech capital Prague in 1968, Brasch and his girlfriend Sanda and other students try to call for protest in the streets of Berlin - and fail. His own father betrays him to the Stasi and allows Thomas to go to prison. After being paroled, he continues to try his hand at poet writing about love, revolt and death. In the GDR, however, you don't want to have anything to do with someone like him.
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Peter Kremer
as Thomas Brasch (56 Jahre)
Adrian Julius Tillmann
as Vladimir Weigl
Andreas Leupold
as Westlektor
Matthew Burton
as Robert Lanz
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Gerit
Lilli Fichtner
as Alma
Johanna Polley
as Jutta
Claudio Magno
as Klaus Brasch (11 Jahre)
Thomas Lawinky
as Remscheid
Markus Friedmann
Hans-Jürgen Alf
as Peschke
Albrecht Schuch
as Thomas Brasch
Jörg Schüttauf
as Horst Brasch
Anja Schneider
as Mutter Gerda Brasch
Ioana Iacob
as Sanda
Joel Basman
as Klaus Brasch
Zoë Valks
as Jean
Matthias Bundschuh
as Regisseur
Jella Haase
as Katarina
Dennis Vehlen
as Worker (uncredited)
Emma Bading
as Silvia
Christian Kuchenbuch
as Vernehmer
Robert Schupp
Kerstin Thielemann
Paula Hans
as Bettina
Michael Schweighöfer
as Grischa