The Same Sky

2017
The Same Sky

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EP1 Episode 1 / Episode 2 Mar 27, 2017

Lars Weber is sent to West Berlin to commence a Romeo assignment. He is proving to be a natural and gets completely under Lauren's skin.

EP2 Episode 3 / Episode 4 Mar 29, 2017

Lauren is deeply torn between her feelings for Lars and her responsibility towards Emil. Lars is successful with Sabine but is caught unaware by his own feelings for her.

EP3 Episode 5 / Episode 6 Mar 30, 2017

Lars fulfils his mission by capturing Sabine's family's sympathy and trust. Ralf struggles to stop Lars from succumbing to his feelings for Sabine.
7.5| 0h30m| en| More Info
Released: 27 March 2017 Ended
Producted By: Beta Film
Country: Germany
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.zdf.de/filme/der-gleiche-himmel
Synopsis

Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions.

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hatlad Firstly, who in the hell consulted them on US military uniforms and insignia? Whoever it was really took the producers' money. Staff Sergeant stripes AND 1st Lieutenant bars? Or even worse with Major's oak leaves? Good night! And all the homosexual love scenes was just ridiculous. Nothing more than an amateurist attempt at being so politically-correct as to attract followers just for that and not the amateuristic production.Mostly symbolism and little substance. And really amateur mistakes in wardrobe to boot.
tammi-42266 This is a wonderful series. Gives a good sense of the life in East Germany during the 70's. I hope that there will be an additional season. There are several stories well embroidered into each other and they keep getting interesting and intriguing. Everything is well done, the scripts, the acting, the directing, the art, the music and the costumes. I'm looking forward to see then next season.
resireg-31415 I just watched the series on netflix (until episode 4) and I am really hooked by the series. Essentially the main story is how much the former German Democratic Republic (communist East Germany) invested time, resources and talent to keep their crumbling regime alive. In order to silence any opposition, they employ this network of informants, whose main job is to accuse someone of being a subversive (even jokes about their leader was a crime), and they would arrest and probably torture any person caught trying to emigrate.Despite so much oppression, life goes on, and we can see the contradictions of a communist life, where everyone is supposed to be from the same class, but families are ambitious, materialistic and competitive just like their compatriots in capitalist West Germany. There is a mother who's watching her daughter's life being ruined by the regime (they are giving her hormones and steroids to enhance her swimming performance), but she hopes that that sacrifice will Be worth if they get a larger apartment as a reward for her daughter success in sports.My main criticism is that we have a few American and British characters, but they don't behave like either American or British and they speak German with their own children (normally you speak at home your mother tongue), besides anglos are notorious for being monolingual. Their flawless German is just not plausible.The secret police from East Germany creates this ruthless program of strategic seduction, where agents infiltrate West Germany, and have manipulated affairs with American and British women who work for the military, and they discard them once they get all "intelligence" necessary. Watching that series makes you see how much communism relied on destroying people's lives in order to keep the system alive, but we don't see anybody happy in that country, nobody can have a normal life, and every neighbor and coworker might report you to the secret police, where you would be tortured despite being innocent.It is very educational, I recommend the series.
guycorhuo ****WARNING SPOILERS****The same sky is an interesting TV show but sometimes quite predictable. It's true that the authors unveil the (supposedly) shocking twist in the last episode (by the way, here in Spain the series has been divided in six episodes one hour long each episode) of the first season but you can guess it easily since the second or third episode. When I was watching it I thought it was going to be a mini series and all the plots were coming to an end and I discovered there was going to continue in further seasons 45 minutes into the last (and sixth) episode. I've liked it but I don't think it's so interesting to make it last more than one season. I admit that there were some story lines that I didn't understand (Why should we be interested in knowing anything else about Emil once his mother has died? What's about that eager informer from the factory?) and at the end I got that these are going to be story lines for the second season. I'm not sure whether I'll be watching it once the second season will be released because I haven't found it so thrilling to wait a whole long year but if you're interested in revisionist European TV shows based in actual events or historic periods maybe you should give it a chance.