Zuckersand (Spielfilm)

A small town in Brandenburg in the late 1970s: Ten-year-old friends Jonas (Valentin Wessley) and Fred (Tilman Döbler) share a carefree childhood. Inspired by a boomerang given to Fred by his old neighbor Kaczmarek (Hermann Beyer), they decide to dig a tunnel to Australia - secretly, in an abandoned factory near the border to West Berlin. But their world begins to totter: Fred's loyal parents want him to join the Olympic squad as a runner, while Jonas' mother applies to leave the country. When permission is granted, Jonas has to follow his mother to the border crossing. A poetic film about friendship, parting and the limits of a childhood in the GDR.

Feature film, 2017, Director: Dirk Kummer, 89 min.

Opening Campus Cinema 2025:
Alexandra Titze (Federal Archive - Stasi Records Archive), Frank Ebert (Berlin Reappraisal Commissioner) and Rebecca Hernandez Garcia (Robert Havemann Society e.V.),

Moderation: Wolfgang Porsche (radioeins)

Preliminary program

17:00 // Free access to the Mielke floor with "Live Speaker" // 60 min. // Registration required at: https://stasimuseum.de

18:00 // View of the Stasi Records Archive's collection of sample files // 60 min.

18:15 // Guided tour through the open-air exhibition "Revolution and the Fall of the Wall" // 60 min.

Registration for the guided tours required at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de

The Campus Cinema is organized by the Federal Archives - Stasi Records Archive, the Berlin Reappraisal Commissioner and the Robert Havemann Society. Media partners are Radio Eins and Der Tagesspiegel. The Campus Cinema is being organized in cooperation with the Stasi Museum, UOKG e. V., DOH Doping Opfer Hilfe e.V., Bürgerkomitee 15. Januar e. V. and Förderverein "Campus für Demokratie" e. V..

The Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e.V. is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.

An event as part of the Campus Cinema

The event is part of the"Campus-Kino" series.