Lutz Seiler's Stern 111 to Be Adapted for Film

November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they’ve harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West. Carl, their son, refuses to keep watch over the family home and instead heads to Berlin, where he lives in his father’s car until he is taken in by a group of squatters. Led by a shepherd and his goat, the pack of squatters sets up the first alternative bar in East Berlin and are involved in guerrilla occupations. And it’s with them that Carl, trained as a bricklayer, finds himself an initiate of anarchy, of love, and above all, of poetry.

Winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize and a bestseller in German with more than 150,000 copies sold, Star 111 is musical and incantatory, telling of the search for authentic existence and also of a family exploded by political change which must find its way back together. Now, this moving story is set to reach cinemas as well.