Die Reise mit Vater plot
Mihai and Emil Reinholtz are Romanian Germans living in Arad. All they have in common is their concern for their ailing father, but that's all. The eldest, Mihai, feels right at home in Ceausescu's Romania. He is a doctor and half-heartedly spying for the Securitate. Emil fights the regime with all his might and finds himself in situations from which only his brother's status can save him. One day they receive the good news that their father is undergoing surgery in Dresden. On the way there, however, they cross the Russian tanks that are going to precipitate the Prague Spring in 1968.