Another movie based on the idea of "mistakes were made, but now we will do it right and it will work, promised".

After presenting the horrors of the epurations in stalinist Soviet Union and the cheapisness of life on the Gulag the story continues presenting us that the same happens in the GDR. But at no point is said that this is imanent to the system, all this situations are presented as mistakes and the film concludes that communist paradise will arrive if you just follow the ideology and are always fearing the West. (Interestingly people flee to the West, not from.) Technically a fine film, but communist always had convincing propaganda.