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The Movie 'Night Crossing'
24 October 2007

Desperation The movie, Night Crossing portrays an East German family about the year of 1978. This was right after they stopped allowing East Germans to travel freely back and forth East and West Germany. This is just one more of the acts furthering the restrictions placed on East Germans. Others included requesting visas to leave the East and being constantly in fear that a spy would report them to the SS for being “unpatriotic” when found even speaking about other ideas, or owning books that weren’t the communistic ideology. In the movie, Night Crossing, the characters develop a need to be free, a desperation to be free, to do anything it takes. In the first scenes, Lukas Keller, the young teen, manages to visit his
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