The Weissensee Saga

- Season 4

(2018)

Martin Kupfer formed a reconstituted family with Westberlin girlfriend Katja Wiese and his two daughters, but Anna longs back to their first family and Lisa wines Martin doesn't support her model ambition, Martin being flat-out at the furniture plant. Falk is in a wheelchair since Dunja Hausmann shot his leg cripple, but is hired as consultant by western insurance company Promittas for his Stasi-competences, under alias Schmitt; thus physio-therapist Petra Zeiler knows him and admires his spirit, ignoring he belonged to the StaSi which has jailed her for a flight ...

General Günther Gaucke Falk shows a document proving Hans Kupfer once decided and executed the StaSi murder of his friend Mischa Liebermann in West Berlin, which Hans calls a blackmail forgery, but Falk has doubts and insists to put the family's future first, given sole potential witness Dunja Hausmann is missing. Crushed by the movement's electoral failure, Vera accepts Bernd Krohnak's Treuhand job offer. Roman Kupfer's nocturnal Trabi-drag-race impresses a street gang which he joins, but gets wounded when they start a street fight against Turkish youngsters, his ...

After Martin and Katja Wiese return Lisa home from Milan, her modeling agency demands compensation, butt Katja threatens with an article exposing the debauchery. Marlene Kupfer helps Günther Gauckes smuggle the party funds over Switzerland back to Berlin. Peter Görlitz and Nicole Henning start a (used) car dealership viz. food stand. About to crack under costs due to the currency parity, Martin considers Swabian investor Rüdiger Breger's financial proposal for the furniture factory but mistrusts it and turns to the Treuhand, where Vera must examine the plan. Informed ...

Hans asks Katja Wiese for another interview, feeling while Dunja Hausmann remains missing, disclosure of the true archives is his only hope against Gaucke's counterfeits. Falk Kupfers alter Stasi-learned blackmail methods made Promittas the leading insurance in east Germany and his romance with unsuspecting physio-therapist Petra deepens, but tormented by guilt, he resolves to help Hans, yet his mother Marlene refuses to disclose what happened to Mischa Liebermann. Falk is threatened himself by Gaucke when he defends Hans, so Falk calls his marker on CIA-agent Shnyder...

When Falk is hospitalized, his lover Petra recognizes visiting father Hans Kupfer from TV and realizes Falk lied about his past, which shocks her enough to dump him. Celebrating the German world cup victory as host nation, Roman Kupfer's lover Svenja is killed when his Neonazi-gang clashes with a leftist street gang. Mother Vera fails to console Roman or deter him from joining the gang's violent revenge plans, but turns to ex Falk, who chases the cowards away and reconciles with his son. Peter Görlitz thanks Nicole Henning for helping him in his car dealership with a ...

Martin wrestles with conscience issues about Marlene's offer to settle his debt with some of the party funds, and thus waits until the offer has expired due to paying off general Gaucke to provide Hans a defense in the murder case. Petra realizes she still loves Falk despite his despicable StaSi past and demands proof he has changed. Researching the party finances, Katja gets an interview with Treuhand boss Bernd Krohnak, whom Vera pushes to disclose West German firms collaboration with Stasi survivors. Falk is instructed by chief Herrmann von Stein, to stop Katja ...