TANIA

TANIA

Elmar Fischer, 2025
Synopsis

GDR 1961: Young TAMARA BUNKE (24), daughter of Jewish exiles from Argentina, not only falls for the political goals of the rousing revolutionary CHE GUEVARA (32) during a state visit. She also meets ULISES ESTRADA (26), the charismatic commandant of Che's team. Ignited by the fire of the revolution, she gets involved in a espionage deal with the Stasi in order to cheat her way to Cuba. In Havana, she ends up caught between all fronts: Under the watchful eye of the Stasi, which expects results from her, but in reality, solely dedicated to Che's revolution, Tamara allows herself to be trained as a double spy by Che's troops. At the same time, her honest love grows for Commandante Ulises, who eventually gives her the choice of following her personal happiness and going into hiding rather than following Che's plans to liberate South America, which by now he considers a suicide mission. An unresolvable, deeply tragic conflict that ends fatally for Tamara in the battle of Bolivia.

Production details
Director: Elmar Fischer
Writer: Thomas Brussig, Elmar Fischer, Jörg Tensing
Genre: Drama
Production company: near future films GmbH
In coproduction with: enigma film GmbH, LAVAlabds Moving Images GmbH & Co KG , Sur Film SL
Funding type: Production
Funding sum: 500.000,00 €
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