Abgehauen

Abgehauen
Based on	Abgehauen by Manfred Krug
Screenplay by	Ulrich Plenzdorf
Directed by	Frank Beyer
Starring	Peter Lohmeyer
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
Production
Producer	Norbert Sauer
Running time	89 minutes
Original release
Release	1998 (1998)

Abgehauen is a 1998 German television docudrama directed by Frank Beyer and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Manfred Krug. (Abgehauen. Ein Mitschnitt und ein Tagebuch. Düsseldorf: ECON 1996). Frank Beyer won an Adolf Grimme Award for his work on the film.

The film is about the circumstances of the East German government stripping the singer and dissident Wolf Biermann of his citizenship, while he was on a concert tour in West Germany, and Krug's own departure from East Germany.

External links

• Abgehauen at IMDb