S1.E5 ∙ Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Ballet Dancer

It is the untold story of the reunification - the year of change from the perspective of six teenagers from East Germany. They jointly remember what happened 25 years ago. Anke and her friends are between 14 and 18 years old, when the wall falls in 1989. In the transition from child to adult, the cornerstones of their existence are put into question. Generation '89 waives the usual images of the year of change. Even stronger is the effect of the poetic motifs of cameraman Robert Coellen and the super-8 material from private archives. The very personal film by Anke Ertner, daughter of a former NVA officer, is the long overdue different perspective on the fall of the Berlin wall and the German reunification.

In Paris in 1815, Juliette Récamier is adored by Parisian high society, sought after by artists and intellectuals, among whom writer and politician Benjamin Constant. When she welcomes him to her salon, her intention to convince him to write a memoir for the Congress of Vienna on behalf of Murat, King of Naples, threatened with losing his throne after the defeat and abdication of his brother-in-law Napoleon I. After much hesitation, he accepts this delicate task, which incidentally will enable him to see again the woman he is secretly in love with. A few days later, Benjamin Constant reads his latest novel, "Adolphe", in Juliette Récamier's salon. It's the start of a hellish game.

About Tom Wolfe, the American author and journalist famous for New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

An interview with Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 director, Tony Randel.