Deutschland 83 (2015)

Set in 1983 when Germany was still divided a young East German soldier, Martin Rauch, is given a difficult task he is to go to the West and replace a West German officer who is due to work at the aide to a general so that he can learn what the west is planning. He doesn't want to go but he is promised that his mother will get the medical treatment she needs if he goes.

I am German and lived in east Germany as a child and in West Berlin until 1970. The series strikes me as something of a fairy story.

It seems strange to think now that when I was growing up Germany was divided but it's in this world of my youth that "Deutschland '83" is set, when Ronald Regan installed new missiles in Europe and the world appeared to be on a perilous course. The series tells a spy-story, which also serves to illuminate the differences between east and west.