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Biology!
Original title: Biologie!
feature film - GDR, 1990, color, 90 min.
Coming-of-Age Film, contemporary film, literature, environmental film, love story

Director Jörg Foth
Producer DEFA Feature Film Studios
Script Gabriele Kotte, Wolfgang Müller
Based Upon a novel by Wolf Spillner: “Die Wasseramsel“
Camera Michael Göthe Music Christoph Theusner, "Langeweile" von Pankow wird gespielt von The Breads
Stills Dieter Jaeger

Cast
Stefanie Stappenbeck (Ulla), Cornelius Schulz (Winfried), Uta Reckzeh (Birgit), Robert Arnold (Ralph), Carl Heinz Choynski (Hansen), Katrin Klein (Ullas Mutter), Peter Prager (Erich), Heide Kipp (Frau Tübner), Horst Rehberg (Generaldirektor Tübner), Axel Werner (Bürgermeister), Peter Dommisch (Abel), Dietlind Stahl (Frau Baumann), Peter Welz (Bräutigam), Paul Berndt (Kimpel), André Hennicke, Hans Otto Reintsch, Helke Misselwitz (Krankenschwester), Erika Richter (Essende Frau auf der Datscha)

Synopsis
At first sight Winfried realizes that Ulla is great and has style. With a daredevil moped ride he successfully catches his classmate’s attention. A tender love grows. Initially Winfried is inspired by Ulla’s passion for nature conservation. During a school excursion they discover that a bungalow is being built and a trout farm is to set up in the middle of a nature reserve. Ulla wants to put up a fight, true to the maxim “Children are liable for their parent’s actions”. An exhibition on the Kerbtal valley is planned and Winfried helps to organize right pictures with his computer knowledge. But little by little, he can no longer bear the moral conflict he is in for his father, the powerful director general Tübner, is responsible for the illegal building activities. The different lifestyles of the two families – on one side the well-established citizens, used to comfort, and on the other side the family living in a tumble down place – hold a lot of potential for conflict for the young lovers.
The socio-critical Romeo-and-Juliet love story from the summer of 1989 is one of the few DEFA feature films dealing with environmental problems.