A Television series. A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot-to-kill order. Tannbach is a German-German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village communit. Tannbach is a German mini-series that first aired in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the traumatic period of German history between the end of World War II and 1952. For the people of the village, the end of the war does not mean the end of hardship, soon the Cold War takes over and the village as well as the people become divided.