DESERT FILM SOCIETY presents THE TOWER

A searing look at Communist East Germany in its final decade, The Tower reveals the intimate realities of life behind the Berlin Wall. Based on Uwe Tellkamp’s acclaimed novel, heralded as “one of the most important books of European post-War literature,” The Tower portrays senior surgeon Richard Hoffmann, his wife Anne, their teenage son Christian, and their community of privileged intellectuals in suburban Dresden.