Watch The Weissensee Saga

The Weissensee Saga is a German television drama series that premiered in 2010 and ran until its conclusion in 2018. The show is set in East Germany during the Cold War era and explores the lives of two families, the Kupfers and the Hausmanns, who are on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

At the start of the series, Martin Kupfer (Florian Lukas) is a young and idealistic member of the Stasi, East Germany's notorious secret police. He comes from a family of true believers in the Communist cause, with his father Hans (Uwe Kockisch) being a high-ranking Stasi official and his brother Falk (J