The film's main protagonist is the young and eccentric inventor Gunther Schmidt, who (like many others) attempts to flee across the East German borderline to the West using his inventions, but constantly meets with failure.
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Border Troops' soldier Martin arrives in a village on the Inner German border.
As per the dictates of the Yalta Conference, Boizenburg was placed just a few kilometers behind the perimeter of the Iron Curtain, otherwise known as the 'Inner German Border'.
After World War II the historical frontier between the former Halberstadt territory within the Prussian Province of Saxony (except for Hornburg and Roklum) in the south and the Brunswick lands (except for Hessen and Pabstorf) in the south along the Großes Bruch became the Inner German Border between West and East Germany.
Between 1982 and 1990 Gudow served as West German inner German border crossing for cars travelling along Bundesautobahn 24 between the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the West German Federal Republic of Germany.
Heinz-Josef Große was a 34-year-old East German (GDR) construction worker who was shot and killed on 29 March 1982 by GDR border guards on the Inner German border at Schifflersgrund, near Bad Sooden-Allendorf.
During 1952, the rejection of the Stalin Note by the Western Powers prompted the East German government to block and fortify the country's western borders - and to destroy several adjacent villages in the process.
The city was finally relinked to the western German power grid via a new 170-km transmission line to Helmstedt, just behind the former inner-German border.