The first series on Channel 4’s new foreign drama platform Walter Presents, Deutschland 83 has already set the UK’s ratings record for foreign language drama – and it’s only two episodes in.
Part coming-of-age story, part spy drama, it follows the reluctant adventures of a young East German border guard forced to go undercover in the West by his impressively manipulative Stasi aunt.
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