Freya Klier was born in 1950 in Dresden. 18 years later she tried to escape from the GDR, but her escape was unsuccessful. After her Acting and Film directing studies in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin she worked for several Eastern German theaters. In 1980 she was one of the founding members of the GDR Peace movement. Therefore she was under the pressure of the GDR officials and lost her GDR-citizenship in 1988. Since then she lives and works as Author and Movie director in Berlin. For her achievements in promoting democracy she was awarded with the Medal of the Federal State of Berlin and Constitutional Prize of the Federal State of Saxony. The main subject of her movies is the German past during and after the 2nd World War (Nazi-Germany and GDR).
Pāvils Brūvers, born in 1949, studied Medicine in Riga and Cologne (Germany), Management in the USA, Theology in Irving (USA) and Riga. For 25 years he was Journalist at "Brīvā Eiropa"/"Free Europe" radio in Germany and deputy editor in chief of Latvian Edition in Czech Republic. Since 1995 he was Preacher at the Latvian Evangelic-Lutheran church in Germany and Czech Republic. Since 2004 he is deputy Archbishop of Latvian Evangelic-Lutheran church and since 2007 Bishop in Liepaja.
"Escape with the Moscow-Paris-Express" is telling the escape story of eight pupils from East Berlin to West Germany in 1964 as they jump on the high protected train Moscow-Paris-Express almost before the border to West Berlin. They were willing to escape from the political pressure, which was everydaylife for GDR pupils after the Wall was built in Berlin. The escape was brought into the light as one of them jumped down from the 7 meter railway bridge. The former 17-years olds meet again after 36 years.