East German sensibilities in a premiere film at the Berlinale: love in times of the turning point

Summer 1990 in the rural idyll of Thuringia. 18-year-old Maria has moved in with her boyfriend Johannes, in the attic room on his parents’ farm, who treat Maria like their own daughter. So she sits at the table when all the excitement of this time is being discussed: that the uncle is coming to visit from the West, that there are no longer many jobs, that you can now just f…