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J.Howard IDas Versprechen 5. What is Von Trotta’s primary objective: to tell a personal story about a love affair or compose a narrative essay on the history of German division? Das Versprechen directed by Margarethe von Trotta is a love story set to the backdrop of the divided Germany beginning in 1961 up until the historic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The film begins with a group of youngsters, among them the main protagonists Sophie and Konrad, who are about to embark on an escape from East to West Berlin. Everything goes to plan except that Konrad does not make it thus only seeing his great love Sophie three or four times over the next twenty-eight years. The next time they meet, still young and in love, is in Prague of 1968. As they rekindle their love for each other Russian tanks move into Prague and they are again separated. After this Sophie can no longer gain access to the DDR and though she is pregnant with Konrad’s child tells him by letter that they must live their own lives. Twelve years later they finally meet again when Konrad arrives as part of an East German scientific delegat