The Architects (1993)

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town in EastBerlin He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with This way he reunites with former colleagues and friends most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement Together they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic However their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors As frustration grows Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his familylife his wife Wanda wants to leave for WestGermany