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Sometimes it's the little things
that shape the course of history.

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In the early hours of June 23, 1984

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a single set of points was set wrong
on Berlin's vast railway network.

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But an East German S-Bahn train
passed this set of points,

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going through Friedrichstrasse Station
and on to the West part of the city.

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On the morning of June 23,
an East Berlin S-Bahn train

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passed Friedrichstrasse Station
heading west...

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We are interrupting this program me
for a special broadcast.

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It has just been reported...

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from the east of the city to West Berlin.

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A BERLIN HERO

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A FILM BY WOLFGANG BECKER

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This is Striebel speaking,
from Tengo Bank.

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Mr Hartung, I'm trying to reach you.
You're not home.

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Please call me back.
Thank you.

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Hello? Can you open the door?
- I'm coming.

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Just a second.
- Otis needs to pee.

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I can't hold it any more.
- Just a moment, honey.

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Grandpa, I need to go!

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Just pee in the flowerpot.

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Okay, unzip your trousers.

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Too late!

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We were meant to meet an hour ago!
- Sorry, I had my ear plugs in.

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I was really worried.

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My alarm is set to winter time.

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In September?
- Yes.

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What's with the lock?

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I got locked out and had it changed.

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Why didn't you call?
Locksmiths cost a fortune.

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Yes, it was pricey.

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Oh, Dad...
Put that down, sweetie!

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Want a coffee?
- We need to go to the doctor's.

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Oh, | almost forgot...

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This came in the post.
Do you need money?

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No, I'll be fine.

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I'm just not a morning person.

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Bye, Grandpa!
- Bye!

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Seat belts on!

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Morning!
- Hi, Beate.

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FORMAL NOTIFICATION

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Tengo Bank, Loan Department.

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I assume you still listen
to this answering machine.

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Hello? Is anyone there?

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Just a moment. I'm coming.

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Alexander Landmann, FAKT magazine,
History Department.

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It's an honour to meet you in person,
- Really?

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Then I guess for me too.

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What are you looking for?
Comedy? Drama? Horror?

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Adult entertainment?
- To be honest, I'm looking for you.

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We're covering the anniversary
of the fall of the Berlin Wall

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and I wanted to ask you a few questions
about the night of June 22nd, 1984.

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An S-Bahn train simply passed
Friedrichstrasse Station

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from East Berlin to West Berlin.

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The so-called "mass escape"?

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What's it got to do with me?

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Don't be so modest, Mr Hartung.
I've seen the Stasi files.

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You were arrested for planning it.

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You were a signalman
at Friedrichstrasse...

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Deputy signalman!

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The files state that you...

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This is a video store,
not the state railway.

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If you're not a customer,
you'll need to sign up for a membership.

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Here's the form.

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It's 80 euros registration fee.

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I just wanted an interview with you.

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You can also choose
a Premium Membership for 250 euros.

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Then we can talk longer.

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Okay.

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I'll take a Premium Membership
if you answer some questions.

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Customer relations are important to us.

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The first payment
must be paid immediately.

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Cash.

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How much is the first payment?

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120.

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When did you begin
to plan the mass escape?

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And above all, why?

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I don't know anything about a mass escape.

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Mr Hartung, you were arrested for it.

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The files say you worked for an
organisation helping people escape,

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but it was never proven.

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It says here...

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that you were responsible

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for 127 people travelling
from the East to the West.

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Listen closely, Hartung:

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You will never say a word

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about what happened
that night at Friedrichstrasse Station.

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Never!

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I think there's a big misunderstanding.

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You're a hero!

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But nobody knows.
We have to change that.

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Do you want to rent a film or just chat?

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My time is precious.

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You will never say a word
about what happened here.

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400 euros, if you tell me your story.

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Let me make a quick phone call.

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Forget it.

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Forget it, Micha.

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400 euros?
That's 800 marks, n'est-ce pas?

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2000 euros.

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I reckon that makes me
a Hyper-Premium Platinum member.

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But first, you must give me
a straight answer to this question:

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Did you help anyone escape that night,

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yes or no?

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Well, Landmann? Lurking around
in the dark realm of the Stasi again?

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Sorry, Alexander, that seat's taken.
I'm very sorry.

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Okay.

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You're entitled to it...

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Morning, everyone.

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Morning.
- Morning.

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Special edition:
30 years after the fall of the Wall.

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We need something new.
A new take, new stories.

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Surprise me, please.
Give me something good.

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Any ideas?
- "The GDR's final party",

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A country disintegrates. Some flee
to the West, others to the dance floor.

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We'll see. Next.

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"Drinking Culture in the East!"
Vodka, Nikolaschka and Blood...

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Sorry, Karl, no.

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Landmann, what've you got?

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"The GDR's biggest mass escape".

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Oh, that S-Bahn story?
Anything new on that?

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Yes, the authorities covered it up
claiming it was a series of errors.

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But it wasn't.

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We'll tell the unknown story
of the mastermind behind it all.

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An unknown German hero here in Berlin.

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Is he still alive?
- Yes. Michael Hartung

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runs a video store in Prenzlauer Berg.

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"A Berlin Hero".
It's powerful, it moves me.

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A bit of local colour,
but the big political stage too.

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What kind of man is Hartung?
I want to know.

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Why did he do it?
We want to know that.

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For him, it was about freedom.

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And to achieve that, he was willing
to remain captive himself.

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A selfless grand gesture.

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It sounds to me like the story
of an East German Oskar Schindler.

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Yes, sure.

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It's too big to wait another eight weeks.

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We'll do it immediately. Landmann,
ready for your first cover story?

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Can you manage that?

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It's the story of an average man.

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It's a heroic tale.

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It's the story of an average man.

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His name is... Michael Hartung.

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Why did you keep it to yourself
for so long?

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What? I haven't...
- Dad!

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You're the cover story:
"A Berlin Hero".

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What did you say? But that's...

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Well...

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That's maybe an exaggeration, but...

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I just helped out, you know...

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Yes, in the article it says
you're so quiet and reserved. Modest!

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Is that why you kept your plan
secret for so long?

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My plan?

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The way you prepared it
waiting for the right night,

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with the goal of saving
all those people. I mean...

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I didn't think you were like that.

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What did you think I was like?

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Not quite so determined.
- What do you mean?

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How can I put it?

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You're going round in circles,
you've been stuck in a rut for years.

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Well, that's what I thought.
But now I realize that...

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I realize how little I actually know you.

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That's what your mother always said.

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That's the worst compliment
you could give!

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Tanja wasn't as bad as you think.

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Dad, the woman just left us
without batting an eyelid.

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We can't be sure about the eyelids.
We weren't there, after all.

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Things were complicated back then.

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I think you have
a one-sided view of it, honey.

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Nathalie, are you still there?

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Anyway, I'm done with Mum.

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But I'm glad you finally let it all out.

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Let what out?
- Your story!

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Oh, yes. That's right, honey.

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Okay, Dad. Love you, bye!

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"Michael Hartung lowers his gaze."

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The terrible memories of that time
pass before his mind's eye:

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the windowless basement cell,
the darkness that lasted for days,

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the interrogator's angry shouting.
The imploring letter from his mother,

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"in which she begged him
to confess everything..."

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"It all came back vividly
to Michael Hartung"

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as if it had happened yesterday.

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But then a shy smile
passes across his face.

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He talks about the day

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when he saw a spider
on the wall of his cell.

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'At that moment, the little spider
became a symbol of life for me',

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"he says quietly, fighting back tears."

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That's a pack of lies. What spider?

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Your spider!
- He made a spider whisperer of me.

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It's a distortion of the facts.
What do you want?

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Earlier on, I cried when I read
what they did to you in prison.

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It really choked me up.

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I could never be angry with you
about anything from now on.

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There he is! Mr Hartung!

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Mr Hartung!
- Mr Hartung!

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Can you really talk to spiders?

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I think that was it.

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He told me all about it.

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Keep your mouth shut, Bernd!

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He told me all about first.

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Where can I find Alexander Landmann?

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You can't go in.
- Where is he?

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The next door but one.
Wait! You can't go in!

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Alexander Landmann. Here!

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Mr Hartung!
- He barged in. Shall I call security?

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It's okay.
- Goodbye!

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I quote:

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"He recalls a sentence by Nelson Mandela,"

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who wrote after his release
from apartheid prison:

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"As I walked to the gate
that would lead to my freedom,"

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I knew I had to leave
my bitterness and hatred behind,

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or I'd remain a lifelong prisoner.'

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These words by the great
South African freedom fighter

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have always been
a source of comfort to him,

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"says Michael Hartung.
Then he falls silent."

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That's the part where my wife cried.

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But it's a lie! Do you realise
the situation you've put me in?

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My daughter admires me
for something I never did!

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It's all documented:
The mass escape, your arrest...

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I never said that!

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And I never read Nelson Mandela
in my life!

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I know you think
I'm a procrastinating loser,

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but don't underestimate me!

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Easy, now. You changed the points.

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Without you, the train
would never have gone to the West.

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Those are the facts.
- But there was no plan!

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It was a dumb coincidence. And I never
talked to a spider. You made that up.

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You affirmed that you helped them escape.

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I just said what you wanted to hear!

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Okay, so you lied to me?

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You accuse me of rewriting your life,
but it's you who lied.

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I didn't know
you'd make such a big thing of it.

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So, you weren't actually tortured
in Hohenschdénhausen?

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No.

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But you were in Stasi prison?
- Yes, but only for two days.

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I've got nothing.

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What if it gets out?
Is it a criminal offence?

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There could be legal repercussions.

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For you, I mean.
After all, you lied to me.

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The last thing I need now
is more problems.

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Does it have to come out?

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It doesn't have to
If you keep quiet, and if I keep quiet.

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Which I would do for you.
In two weeks, it will be forgotten.

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I wish you a happy life.
- Landmann?

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See you tomorrow.

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Is that him?
- Yes. This is our chief editor.

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What an amazing story.

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It is a great honour for us
to be the first to report on this.

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Thank you, Mr Hartung.

249
00:19:02,542 --> 00:19:05,250
What an amazing life.
- Thank you.

250
00:19:05,375 --> 00:19:08,667
You're welcome.
- Do you have a moment?

251
00:19:09,458 --> 00:19:12,375
I'll send him back in a minute, I promise.

252
00:19:18,417 --> 00:19:19,583
Shit!

253
00:19:21,833 --> 00:19:23,833
Is he coping with it? He seems a bit...

254
00:19:24,542 --> 00:19:26,500
I think so.
- Yes?

255
00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:29,125
I mean, sure. No problem.

256
00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:31,958
And you've checked
all the names and facts, right?

257
00:19:33,958 --> 00:19:35,500
I checked everything.

258
00:19:35,667 --> 00:19:37,625
We can't afford any mistakes.
- No.

259
00:19:37,750 --> 00:19:40,042
I checked it several times.
It's bulletproof.

260
00:19:42,958 --> 00:19:46,458
I always knew you had a lot of potential.

261
00:19:46,583 --> 00:19:48,833
This will really boost your career.

262
00:19:57,083 --> 00:19:59,167
Maybe they are the real heroes?

263
00:19:59,667 --> 00:20:02,833
Yes, definitely.
I'm reminded of the Bible, of Moses,

264
00:20:02,958 --> 00:20:05,208
who led his people to freedom.

265
00:20:05,333 --> 00:20:09,125
And didn't make a big thing of it.
- And neither does Michael Hartung.

266
00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:11,417
And that may be the reason...

267
00:20:11,542 --> 00:20:15,458
Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Harald Wischnewsky.

268
00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:22,083
Esteemed Ladies and gentlemen,
every ending is always a beginning.

269
00:20:22,833 --> 00:20:27,208
That's something we learned
from the historic autumn of 1989.

270
00:20:27,792 --> 00:20:33,083
"A magic dwells within very beginning
That protects us, helps us to live..."

271
00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:36,542
Breakfast is ready.

272
00:20:39,125 --> 00:20:41,833
That's quite a story about Hartung

273
00:20:41,958 --> 00:20:44,583
talking to a spider
to stop himself going mad.

274
00:20:44,708 --> 00:20:47,625
A spider! I always thought
you could recognize madmen

275
00:20:47,750 --> 00:20:50,125
by the fact they talk to insects.

276
00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:54,125
That part of the article almost
made me cry. I think it's pretty good.

277
00:20:55,667 --> 00:20:57,458
Unlike your dissident beard.

278
00:20:57,625 --> 00:21:00,833
Don't you want to shave it off
for your speech in the Bundestag?

279
00:21:00,958 --> 00:21:02,625
I think it looks authentic.

280
00:21:02,750 --> 00:21:06,125
The beard is as depressing and grey
as East Germany.

281
00:21:11,333 --> 00:21:14,167
Ladies and gentlemen, I am a spider.

282
00:21:17,167 --> 00:21:19,875
Just the way you like them.
- With mushrooms?

283
00:21:21,375 --> 00:21:23,375
Mightily mighty!

284
00:21:24,958 --> 00:21:27,417
Please wash it out afterwards.

285
00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:32,583
Tonight, we have a very special guest:
Michael Hartung,

286
00:21:32,708 --> 00:21:35,583
The man whose story
has dominated the press in recent...

287
00:21:35,708 --> 00:21:38,208
You said it'd be over in two weeks.

288
00:21:39,875 --> 00:21:43,542
Yes, okay...
It blew up more than I thought...

289
00:21:43,667 --> 00:21:46,167
But that's a compliment to you.

290
00:21:46,292 --> 00:21:47,792
You're in demand.

291
00:21:49,250 --> 00:21:51,208
I've never given an interview.

292
00:21:51,375 --> 00:21:55,458
Golden rule of interviewing: Don't answer
the question, say what you want to say!

293
00:21:55,583 --> 00:21:57,125
I don't want to say anything.

294
00:21:57,292 --> 00:22:00,500
Start smoothly with:
"I'm glad you asked me that."

295
00:22:00,625 --> 00:22:04,500
Then the journalist feels flattered
and forgets what he wanted to ask.

296
00:22:04,625 --> 00:22:07,708
You have to imagine the whole thing
like a film

297
00:22:07,875 --> 00:22:10,042
with atmospheric elements.

298
00:22:10,167 --> 00:22:14,375
The barking of the distant guard dogs,
spotlights sweeping over the tracks

299
00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,083
like ghostly fingers.
- But why?

300
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,292
Just talk casually.
About life in the GDR,

301
00:22:21,417 --> 00:22:23,750
being locked up behind the Wall,

302
00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:27,292
spied on by the Stasi,
without proper jeans...

303
00:22:29,542 --> 00:22:33,292
You get used to these things.
- Talk about your kindergarten.

304
00:22:33,417 --> 00:22:37,000
I bet you always had to draw tanks
or sing Russian songs.

305
00:22:37,125 --> 00:22:40,833
This is about the truth you feel.
The emotionality of facts.

306
00:22:40,958 --> 00:22:42,625
I liked my kindergarten.

307
00:22:42,792 --> 00:22:46,833
It'd be good if you could talk a little
about suffering. People expect that.

308
00:22:47,417 --> 00:22:50,250
That's what people in the West expect!
Suffering is complicated.

309
00:22:50,417 --> 00:22:53,875
Please keep it simple.
Simple, straightforward stories.

310
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,292
But I didn't suffer!
- Of course you suffered.

311
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:59,583
You just can't remember.

312
00:22:59,708 --> 00:23:02,958
I'm glad you're here.
Let's go to makeup.

313
00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:07,542
Mr Hartung!

314
00:23:08,417 --> 00:23:09,792
Up there.

315
00:23:10,583 --> 00:23:12,375
I'm kind of management.

316
00:23:12,542 --> 00:23:15,917
Maybe we could say I suffered a tiny bit.

317
00:23:16,042 --> 00:23:20,000
A tiny bit, that's it!
- Five seconds to go.

318
00:23:20,125 --> 00:23:23,458
Authentic.
East German and authentic!

319
00:23:23,583 --> 00:23:25,083
Mass escape in the GDR...

320
00:23:25,250 --> 00:23:29,833
which he planned and organized.
Welcome, Michael Hartung.

321
00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:53,125
These spotlights are brighter
than in the death zone.

322
00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:56,875
Thank you for the warm welcome, Mona.

323
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,625
And it's an honour for me
to meet you here too, Mrs Witt.

324
00:24:00,792 --> 00:24:03,167
The honour is all mine, thank you.

325
00:24:04,250 --> 00:24:07,417
Take us back to that fateful night

326
00:24:07,583 --> 00:24:10,000
of June 22, 1984,

327
00:24:10,125 --> 00:24:13,292
when you,
a train driver for the state railway,

328
00:24:13,458 --> 00:24:16,083
changed the lives of 127 people.

329
00:24:17,458 --> 00:24:18,958
Yes, well. I...

330
00:24:20,083 --> 00:24:24,083
I'd made the decision
quite some time beforehand.

331
00:24:24,708 --> 00:24:27,042
It was a process that...

332
00:24:28,542 --> 00:24:30,625
It just kind of took form.

333
00:24:34,167 --> 00:24:36,417
It slowly took form...

334
00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:42,542
Simple, straightforward stories.

335
00:24:44,708 --> 00:24:46,667
I just had to do something.

336
00:24:47,292 --> 00:24:50,708
There wasn't much time,
I knew the next train was on its way.

337
00:24:50,833 --> 00:24:55,458
I had to break off the bolt
that was used to set the points,

338
00:24:55,625 --> 00:24:59,750
but it had to look like an accident
so they couldn't pin it on me.

339
00:24:59,875 --> 00:25:03,208
And at exactly 3:37 am, I did it.

340
00:25:04,167 --> 00:25:08,375
You were alone, facing dozens
of border guards. Weren't you scared?

341
00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:11,833
Of course I was scared.
It's okay to be scared.

342
00:25:11,958 --> 00:25:15,458
Fear keeps you awake,
it makes you stay cautious.

343
00:25:15,583 --> 00:25:20,625
It was like this: The spotlights swept
across the tracks every ten seconds.

344
00:25:21,333 --> 00:25:26,542
To avoid being seen from the watchtower,
I had to lie flat on the gravel.

345
00:25:26,667 --> 00:25:31,583
I had to make sure I stayed
between the track and the live rail,

346
00:25:31,750 --> 00:25:35,375
because if I'd touched the live rail,
I would have been killed.

347
00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:37,583
Yes, yes, it was...

348
00:25:38,458 --> 00:25:42,375
It was the best fitness training
I've ever done in my life.

349
00:25:44,583 --> 00:25:46,792
Better than any gym.

350
00:25:48,917 --> 00:25:50,583
Isn't he great?

351
00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:57,792
Yes, but what was your motivation?
Was it political?

352
00:25:59,833 --> 00:26:02,375
Yes, everything was political in the GDR.

353
00:26:03,833 --> 00:26:07,083
I get the feeling
you're not telling us something, Micha.

354
00:26:07,208 --> 00:26:08,792
Am I right?

355
00:26:08,917 --> 00:26:11,958
How could I keep something
from you of all people, Kati?

356
00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:14,542
Well...

357
00:26:17,583 --> 00:26:21,375
I've never told anyone
what I'm about to tell you.

358
00:26:23,458 --> 00:26:25,625
But I won't say her name.

359
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:29,125
It wouldn't be fair to her.
- Your first girlfriend?

360
00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:33,750
A dancer.

361
00:26:35,542 --> 00:26:38,667
She floated through life,
and she carried me along a little.

362
00:26:39,667 --> 00:26:42,042
I was 22 years old at the time...

363
00:26:43,167 --> 00:26:44,917
and she was only 20.

364
00:26:46,292 --> 00:26:49,167
Maybe you know that feeling
when you meet someone

365
00:26:49,292 --> 00:26:53,417
and you sense that they'll always be
a part of your life.

366
00:26:53,542 --> 00:26:56,750
I know it sounds cheesy, but I felt like

367
00:26:57,542 --> 00:26:59,917
some silly prince in a fairy tale.

368
00:27:00,625 --> 00:27:03,083
So she was the inspiration
for your heroism?

369
00:27:03,250 --> 00:27:07,625
She was second best in her year
at dance school, and had offers

370
00:27:07,750 --> 00:27:11,042
from every major theatre in East Germany.

371
00:27:11,875 --> 00:27:14,542
You must have been so proud of her!

372
00:27:14,667 --> 00:27:16,000
Yes, I was.

373
00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:18,375
She was very special.

374
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,417
"She was very special".

375
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:23,708
Are you watching this, too?

376
00:27:25,375 --> 00:27:28,250
We know him.
- She applied for an exit permit.

377
00:27:28,417 --> 00:27:31,750
She wanted to dance on Broadway.
It was her big dream.

378
00:27:31,917 --> 00:27:36,917
But in the GDR the people were
state-owned, like the factories.

379
00:27:37,083 --> 00:27:39,542
That sounds familiar.
- Yes.

380
00:27:39,667 --> 00:27:42,458
Teachers and the Stasi
worked on her for months.

381
00:27:42,583 --> 00:27:47,208
They made it clear that if she persisted,
she'd never achieve her goal.

382
00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:48,417
And then...

383
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:52,375
She was finally banned from performing.

384
00:27:53,458 --> 00:27:56,792
She moved to Berlin
and secretly gave private dance lessons.

385
00:27:56,958 --> 00:27:59,167
But wasn't it a bit irresponsible?

386
00:27:59,292 --> 00:28:01,750
I mean, taking so many people

387
00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:05,417
on a forced escape,
just so your girlfriend could get out?

388
00:28:05,542 --> 00:28:10,542
I just couldn't accept that they would
deny her the dream of dancing.

389
00:28:10,667 --> 00:28:12,667
That they would let her wither.

390
00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:17,708
If you call that irresponsible,
then yes... perhaps I was.

391
00:28:25,917 --> 00:28:29,958
I like you.
I really like you a lot.

392
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,083
It's really blown up!
Dozens of inquiries.

393
00:28:40,250 --> 00:28:43,250
Newspapers, podcasts... It's crazy!

394
00:28:44,125 --> 00:28:45,500
I like this!

395
00:28:48,042 --> 00:28:50,833
You could have told me
about your girlfriend back then.

396
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,000
Request for an advertising clip.
"Vegan Hero Sausage".

397
00:28:58,667 --> 00:29:00,333
Michael Hartung?

398
00:29:00,458 --> 00:29:01,583
Sure, our hero!

399
00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:03,167
For you.
- Thanks.

400
00:29:03,292 --> 00:29:05,000
Politics.
- Sign here.

401
00:29:05,125 --> 00:29:09,083
Mail from the Left Party.
This is amazing:

402
00:29:09,542 --> 00:29:13,542
You've been invited to a private dinner

403
00:29:13,667 --> 00:29:15,875
at Bellevue Palace
with the Federal President.

404
00:29:16,042 --> 00:29:18,250
That's crazy. And so soon.

405
00:29:18,375 --> 00:29:20,083
I like this!

406
00:29:20,208 --> 00:29:23,125
Do they really mean me?
- Of course.

407
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:27,292
To Micha, Kati Witt's new lover!

408
00:30:07,167 --> 00:30:09,833
Did you just steal those
from the churchyard?

409
00:30:11,667 --> 00:30:14,042
I borrowed them. For you.

410
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:17,542
For me?

411
00:30:17,708 --> 00:30:20,875
I was at Mona's studio earlier
and I waited a while.

412
00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:23,833
I actually wanted to thank you.

413
00:30:23,958 --> 00:30:25,667
Thank me? For what?

414
00:30:26,458 --> 00:30:27,958
You changed my life.

415
00:30:28,083 --> 00:30:31,958
I always wondered how it could have
happened... with the S-Bahn train.

416
00:30:33,167 --> 00:30:36,125
Why us?
And why on that day?

417
00:30:37,250 --> 00:30:39,375
You changed my family's life

418
00:30:39,542 --> 00:30:41,750
and I wanted to thank you.

419
00:30:42,542 --> 00:30:44,667
Would you like to stay a while?

420
00:30:46,167 --> 00:30:47,500
Paula.

421
00:30:48,292 --> 00:30:50,042
Micha.
- I know.

422
00:30:50,208 --> 00:30:51,792
Just for a couple of drinks.

423
00:30:51,917 --> 00:30:55,458
I don't want you to think
I'm a boozehound anything.

424
00:30:55,625 --> 00:30:59,208
But I have time right now,
and if you do, too...

425
00:31:01,083 --> 00:31:03,125
Another time, perhaps.

426
00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:08,417
You were great on the TV show.
Very impressive.

427
00:31:10,333 --> 00:31:13,750
Is this yours?
- Yes, built in 1972.

428
00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:15,708
That was a good year.

429
00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,042
The Godfather, Cabaret, Solaris...

430
00:31:19,208 --> 00:31:21,375
Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
- Bye.

431
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:22,792
Bye.

432
00:31:22,917 --> 00:31:25,375
Fat City.
- I don't know it.

433
00:31:27,333 --> 00:31:29,292
"Berlin District Court".

434
00:31:50,917 --> 00:31:53,042
I think I've found him.

435
00:31:53,167 --> 00:31:56,750
Again?
- What do you mean, "again"?

436
00:31:56,875 --> 00:31:59,125
Did my wording hurt your feelings?

437
00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,792
Very well, describe the feeling.

438
00:32:01,917 --> 00:32:04,667
We don't have to do this
if you're already annoyed...

439
00:32:04,792 --> 00:32:08,083
Mrs Kurz, we've known each other
for over five years.

440
00:32:08,208 --> 00:32:10,875
If I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry.

441
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,042
But I'm just reflecting back
what you won't admit.

442
00:32:14,750 --> 00:32:16,792
You're going around in circles.

443
00:32:20,750 --> 00:32:23,792
Do you consider yourself a good therapist?

444
00:32:25,250 --> 00:32:27,375
Maybe we don't need to do this.

445
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,667
Why can't I ever lie on the lounger?

446
00:32:29,792 --> 00:32:33,250
I always have to sit
on this strange wicker chair.

447
00:32:33,375 --> 00:32:36,208
It leaves ugly marks on your bum.

448
00:32:36,833 --> 00:32:38,625
Let's just start again.

449
00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:42,083
So, you met someone?

450
00:32:43,292 --> 00:32:44,333
Yes.

451
00:32:47,542 --> 00:32:50,250
But somehow it's different this time.

452
00:32:52,083 --> 00:32:55,500
He's not a colleague at work,
thank goodness.

453
00:32:57,125 --> 00:32:58,917
He's just kind of...

454
00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:01,167
modest.

455
00:33:01,333 --> 00:33:02,708
Authentic.

456
00:33:04,250 --> 00:33:07,417
"Sincere" is maybe the right word.

457
00:33:08,042 --> 00:33:09,667
Where did you meet?

458
00:33:11,167 --> 00:33:15,333
We have a shared history,
but we didn't know it.

459
00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:25,542
It's best to just copy
everything the President does.

460
00:33:25,708 --> 00:33:28,500
First, we place the napkin on our lap.

461
00:33:32,875 --> 00:33:34,625
Wait, fold it.

462
00:33:34,750 --> 00:33:38,750
The upper layer of the napkin
must overlap the bottom layer.

463
00:33:38,917 --> 00:33:42,958
Then you can wipe your mouth
with the inside of the top layer

464
00:33:43,083 --> 00:33:46,375
and the stain won't be seen.
All very neat.

465
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,875
The spoon goes to your mouth,
not the other way round.

466
00:34:02,333 --> 00:34:04,458
Tell me, how do you know so precisely

467
00:34:04,583 --> 00:34:08,375
that you broke the bolt
at exactly 3:37 am?

468
00:34:08,542 --> 00:34:12,125
Who said that?
- You did. On 'This Evening With Mona'.

469
00:34:14,917 --> 00:34:18,333
The next train
was scheduled to arrive at 03:40.

470
00:34:19,333 --> 00:34:22,583
And it was a 3-minute walk
to the workshop from the points.

471
00:34:22,708 --> 00:34:24,500
I'd done it a thousand times.

472
00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:28,083
But when I got there,
the next train didn't come.

473
00:34:28,208 --> 00:34:29,833
It was delayed.

474
00:34:30,250 --> 00:34:32,333
So I checked my watch.

475
00:34:33,375 --> 00:34:34,500
Yes.

476
00:34:35,458 --> 00:34:37,167
It sounds logical.

477
00:34:40,625 --> 00:34:42,708
Sorry for asking so directly,

478
00:34:42,833 --> 00:34:46,750
but what did you tell your parents
when you got out of prison?

479
00:34:47,167 --> 00:34:49,083
They didn't realize I was gone.

480
00:34:49,625 --> 00:34:51,375
We weren't in contact back then.

481
00:34:53,583 --> 00:34:55,000
Yes, of course...

482
00:34:55,125 --> 00:34:59,083
but your mother wrote you
an imploring letter.

483
00:35:14,958 --> 00:35:17,750
There's a mini bar in the centre console.

484
00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:30,417
It's no wonder people lose touch
with the outside world

485
00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:32,875
when they ride in cars like this.

486
00:36:16,208 --> 00:36:18,333
Everyone wants to meet you, Mr Hartung.

487
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,583
We're pleased you could make it.

488
00:36:20,708 --> 00:36:24,333
It's an honour for me.
- Let's forget the formalities.

489
00:36:24,458 --> 00:36:26,542
My family were all rail workers.

490
00:36:26,708 --> 00:36:29,917
My father repaired diesel locomotives

491
00:36:30,042 --> 00:36:31,500
at the repair workshop

492
00:36:31,625 --> 00:36:35,042
in Bochum Dahlhausen.
- It's been years since I worked there.

493
00:36:35,167 --> 00:36:38,167
I know. I didn't think
there were still video shops.

494
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,083
It's the longing for the past.

495
00:36:43,125 --> 00:36:45,750
The more modern and complicated
the world becomes,

496
00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:49,167
the more people wish to return
to a simple life.

497
00:36:49,292 --> 00:36:51,458
Take my neighbour, Beate.

498
00:36:51,917 --> 00:36:55,167
She only watches romantic films
that are at least 30 years old

499
00:36:55,292 --> 00:36:59,208
because she says that love
was more beautiful back then.

500
00:37:00,333 --> 00:37:02,458
I think Beate is right.

501
00:37:02,583 --> 00:37:06,333
Love was more beautiful.
At least in the films.

502
00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:10,625
Are you a fan of romantic films?

503
00:37:10,750 --> 00:37:14,917
I have simple tastes: The Olsen Gang,
Louis de Funés, Sophie Merceau.

504
00:37:15,042 --> 00:37:16,958
Sophie Marceau!

505
00:37:17,083 --> 00:37:19,500
She's an absolute...
- Knockout!

506
00:37:20,042 --> 00:37:22,917
All the men wanted her,
from the East and the West.

507
00:37:23,083 --> 00:37:25,167
She was universally desired.

508
00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:29,792
She did more for Franco-German relations

509
00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:34,958
than all the foreign ministers put
together, those guys in skinny suits!

510
00:37:35,875 --> 00:37:37,125
Anyway...

511
00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:43,375
You know it's the 30th anniversary
of the fall of the Berlin Wall soon.

512
00:37:44,583 --> 00:37:46,417
We need new faces.

513
00:37:46,833 --> 00:37:49,750
It's always the same old buffers,

514
00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:53,625
physicists and pastors
giving the same old speeches.

515
00:37:54,417 --> 00:37:59,167
It's musty, decrepit,
it's smelly, it has no spirit!

516
00:38:02,333 --> 00:38:06,000
But your story has everything we need.

517
00:38:06,750 --> 00:38:11,167
The courage of individuals to overcome
seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

518
00:38:11,292 --> 00:38:15,250
The urge for freedom!
- What exactly does that mean?

519
00:38:20,875 --> 00:38:22,083
Thank you.

520
00:38:24,042 --> 00:38:25,583
Would you be willing

521
00:38:25,708 --> 00:38:29,833
to come to the anniversary ceremony
of the fall of the Berlin Wall

522
00:38:30,667 --> 00:38:33,000
and hold a speech in the Bundestag?

523
00:38:33,625 --> 00:38:37,375
I don't think I could be
a role model for anyone.

524
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:39,875
You once showed courage when it mattered.

525
00:38:40,042 --> 00:38:42,708
I wasn't brave, I was just in love.

526
00:38:42,833 --> 00:38:46,333
You need courage to be in love like that!

527
00:38:46,458 --> 00:38:48,375
I'm not a hero.

528
00:38:50,208 --> 00:38:54,625
That's what I like about you.
Your damned honesty.

529
00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:59,250
Excuse me, we already have
someone to hold a speech, Mr President.

530
00:38:59,417 --> 00:39:03,417
An East German civil rights activist.
- Oh, who?

531
00:39:04,750 --> 00:39:08,500
Harald Wischnewsky, Chairman of
the Foundation against Forgetting.

532
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,750
The Chancellor endorsed him months ago.

533
00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:16,708
Wischnewsky! He's exactly
the kind of Rasputin I mean. He smells.

534
00:39:20,167 --> 00:39:24,000
This must stay between us,
but how can it be that the Chancellor

535
00:39:24,125 --> 00:39:27,167
keeps sending us her old
revolutionary cronies?

536
00:39:27,333 --> 00:39:30,875
Wischnewsky gave a speech
on the 20th anniversary, too.

537
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,708
That was Gorbachev.

538
00:39:32,875 --> 00:39:36,833
On the 20th anniversary, they
walked across the Bosebrucke.

539
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,542
Okay, we'll discuss that.

540
00:39:41,625 --> 00:39:45,667
I want you
to give it some thought, Hartung.

541
00:39:47,750 --> 00:39:49,958
You're in a different league
to Wischnewsky.

542
00:39:50,458 --> 00:39:53,792
He has boredom written in capital letters

543
00:39:53,917 --> 00:39:56,042
across his receding forehead.

544
00:39:56,208 --> 00:39:58,792
MY LIFE IN THE GDR

545
00:40:02,958 --> 00:40:04,542
Mr Wischnewsky?
- Yes.

546
00:40:04,667 --> 00:40:08,958
It's so great that you're here. We've
never had such a historic figure before.

547
00:40:09,083 --> 00:40:11,875
Historical figure?
I don't know about that.

548
00:40:14,333 --> 00:40:17,375
A camp survivor recently visited
the Anne Frank School.

549
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,875
That was even more exciting than...

550
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,042
You understand?
- Yes.

551
00:40:22,167 --> 00:40:24,292
Camp survivors are hard to find.

552
00:40:24,417 --> 00:40:27,583
You have to book in advance.
There aren't that many left.

553
00:40:27,708 --> 00:40:29,417
So we're glad you could come.

554
00:40:29,542 --> 00:40:33,542
Civil rights activists are in
short supply, if I can put it like that.

555
00:40:33,667 --> 00:40:37,125
May I just touch you a moment?

556
00:40:37,750 --> 00:40:40,500
When I was in India with my ex,

557
00:40:40,625 --> 00:40:44,417
there was this old monk,
and he touched my forehead.

558
00:40:44,583 --> 00:40:47,042
It was so intense.
- Can we go in?

559
00:40:51,458 --> 00:40:55,833
Good morning, Mrs Mdckel.

560
00:40:55,958 --> 00:40:58,833
Last week, I told you

561
00:40:58,958 --> 00:41:02,417
that Germany was once divided by a wall.

562
00:41:02,542 --> 00:41:08,125
On one side
people lived in freedom and prosperity,

563
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:13,250
but on the other side they were not free
and lived in poverty.

564
00:41:13,375 --> 00:41:17,292
Do you remember the name
of the not so nice part? Melanie?

565
00:41:17,917 --> 00:41:22,000
The East!
- GDR: German Democratic Republic.

566
00:41:22,167 --> 00:41:25,417
And Mr Wischnewsky lived there!

567
00:41:26,125 --> 00:41:29,333
But he was very, very discontented.

568
00:41:29,458 --> 00:41:30,750
And sad.

569
00:41:30,875 --> 00:41:34,083
Because life in the GDR was so hard.

570
00:41:34,208 --> 00:41:36,583
But Mr Wischnewsky was brave,

571
00:41:36,708 --> 00:41:39,875
and he fought the evil rulers!
Yes, Linus?

572
00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:43,417
What did you fight with?
- With words.

573
00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:45,167
Oh.
- Boring!

574
00:41:45,292 --> 00:41:48,833
I handed out flyers at the Alexanderplatz.

575
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:53,042
That's why I was arrested
and sent to prison.

576
00:41:53,208 --> 00:41:56,083
It was...
- What was it like in prison?

577
00:41:57,458 --> 00:42:00,875
Well, you're all alone.
And you're afraid.

578
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,167
Very afraid.

579
00:42:02,333 --> 00:42:05,042
Were you tortured?
- No, fortunately not.

580
00:42:05,625 --> 00:42:08,875
Recently, there was a man
from the GDR on TV.

581
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,083
They really tormented him in prison.

582
00:42:11,208 --> 00:42:13,875
No food or sleep...
But he didn't betray anyone.

583
00:42:14,375 --> 00:42:17,625
I'm sorry, but...
- The guy who was saved by a spider!

584
00:42:18,625 --> 00:42:22,167
Mrs Mockel told us
that everyone over there was poor.

585
00:42:22,958 --> 00:42:27,875
There was no unemployment in the GDR.
And no homeless people, either.

586
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,750
And the flats were cheap to rent.

587
00:42:30,875 --> 00:42:33,292
Every child could go to summer camp,

588
00:42:33,417 --> 00:42:37,417
and everyone got strawberry
and chocolate milk at break-time.

589
00:42:38,583 --> 00:42:41,333
But lactose intolerance
didn't exist in the GDR.

590
00:42:41,917 --> 00:42:45,625
Yes, there was a lot of intolerance,

591
00:42:45,750 --> 00:42:48,458
but no one wet their pants
because of milk.

592
00:42:49,292 --> 00:42:52,125
Did you betray anyone?
- Niklas, we don't ask that!

593
00:42:52,292 --> 00:42:56,708
My dad told me that everyone
betrayed each other in the East.

594
00:42:56,833 --> 00:43:00,917
Of course I didn't betray anyone.
- Yes, sure.

595
00:43:01,042 --> 00:43:04,750
If everything was so great,
why did you fight against it?

596
00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,500
I didn't fight against those things,

597
00:43:08,625 --> 00:43:11,083
I fought against the mental confinement.

598
00:43:11,250 --> 00:43:13,792
Against the oppression and stuffiness!

599
00:43:13,917 --> 00:43:17,875
You can't imagine what it's like
to live in a dictatorship.

600
00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:22,333
Although your smartphones,
your likes and followers,

601
00:43:22,458 --> 00:43:24,292
are also a kind of dictatorship.

602
00:43:24,417 --> 00:43:27,500
A dictatorship of fake friends
and fake realities.

603
00:43:28,458 --> 00:43:32,917
To be perfectly honest,
I'd almost prefer our dictatorship.

604
00:43:35,167 --> 00:43:37,417
At least we played football in the park,

605
00:43:37,542 --> 00:43:40,792
we cuddled and made out
round the ping pong table.

606
00:43:40,917 --> 00:43:46,083
We didn't spend the whole time
playing on phones like zombies.

607
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:50,708
Have you ever had therapy?

608
00:43:51,375 --> 00:43:54,708
My mum goes to Dr Junger
at Bayerischer Platz.

609
00:43:54,833 --> 00:43:57,250
And... he's really good.

610
00:43:57,875 --> 00:44:00,875
My therapist is at Senefelder Platz.
She's nice, too.

611
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,458
I used to have aggression problems, too.

612
00:44:03,625 --> 00:44:08,208
That was a vivid insight
into German history.

613
00:44:08,333 --> 00:44:10,292
Thank you very much, Mr Wischnewsky.

614
00:44:10,417 --> 00:44:13,667
I'm sure 5C is waiting for you
with bated breath.

615
00:44:14,750 --> 00:44:18,292
Goodbye!
- Mr Wischnewsky, I'm Mrs Brand from 5C.

616
00:44:18,417 --> 00:44:21,333
It is an honour to meet
such a historical figure.

617
00:44:25,458 --> 00:44:29,417
The silver-plated points
and this commemorative plaque...

618
00:44:29,833 --> 00:44:32,417
are here to remind future generations

619
00:44:32,542 --> 00:44:36,167
of the train to freedom.

620
00:44:36,292 --> 00:44:39,042
You're doing a great job, if I may say so.

621
00:44:39,167 --> 00:44:42,333
You may. Thank you.
- Ariadne von Schulzenburg Lochau,

622
00:44:42,458 --> 00:44:45,458
historical advisor to the board
of the Deutsche Bahn.

623
00:44:45,583 --> 00:44:46,750
Pleased to meet you.

624
00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:51,333
I am responsible for the
commemorative plaque for the platform.

625
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:55,500
As you can see,
we opted for a simple cast steel plate.

626
00:44:55,625 --> 00:45:00,958
80 x 80 cm, a similar material
to the plaque at Grunewald Station.

627
00:45:03,167 --> 00:45:05,333
The memorial to the deported Jews.

628
00:45:06,667 --> 00:45:10,500
Oh, and you thought:
East Germans and Jews are similar?

629
00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:12,250
Goodness, no!

630
00:45:12,417 --> 00:45:17,542
We didn't mean to compare the two,
that would be historically wrong.

631
00:45:17,667 --> 00:45:22,542
I mean, your train drove to freedom,
and the other trains...

632
00:45:22,667 --> 00:45:25,458
Then should the plaques look the same?

633
00:45:25,583 --> 00:45:28,250
It's about the haptics of dictatorship.

634
00:45:28,375 --> 00:45:30,333
The haptics of dictatorship?

635
00:45:30,458 --> 00:45:33,125
Here you go.
We'll carry on in three minutes.

636
00:45:33,292 --> 00:45:36,333
Cast steel is a perfect fit.

637
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:42,250
Cold, hard, but also brittle
and impermanent. And steel rusts,

638
00:45:42,375 --> 00:45:45,750
giving it a beautiful patina,
which has a very historical effect.

639
00:45:45,917 --> 00:45:48,833
So you think the GDR
and the Nazi dictatorship

640
00:45:48,958 --> 00:45:51,000
are somehow one and the same?

641
00:45:51,417 --> 00:45:53,917
I never said that.
We don't want to...

642
00:45:54,042 --> 00:45:57,750
Although there are parallels,
and one shouldn't gloss over them.

643
00:45:57,875 --> 00:45:59,625
Then we shouldn't gloss over the fact

644
00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:03,167
that the Federal Intelligence Service
was set up by former SS personnel.

645
00:46:03,292 --> 00:46:06,000
And that most government agencies
in West Germany

646
00:46:06,125 --> 00:46:08,375
had Nazis in senior positions!

647
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:11,333
I'd better take that. We can start now.

648
00:46:11,792 --> 00:46:14,042
Every drop wears away the stone!

649
00:46:14,167 --> 00:46:17,667
You are a drop
on the steel of dictatorship.

650
00:46:18,167 --> 00:46:22,542
What happens if you find out that history
is different from what you thought?

651
00:46:23,042 --> 00:46:26,375
History is written by the victors.
It's always subjective.

652
00:46:26,542 --> 00:46:28,500
You know the phrase:

653
00:46:28,625 --> 00:46:31,667
"History is the lie
that people have agreed on".

654
00:46:31,792 --> 00:46:35,000
Anyone not shooting, leave the set.
- That's me.

655
00:46:35,167 --> 00:46:37,792
Good luck.
- The minister, please!

656
00:46:39,375 --> 00:46:43,250
And one picture with you...
- Look this way, please!

657
00:46:43,417 --> 00:46:46,792
Well, if that's the decision,
I'll have to accept it.

658
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,958
Thank you. Same to you.

659
00:46:54,542 --> 00:46:57,042
They cancelled my speech.

660
00:46:57,208 --> 00:46:59,125
It's the beard.

661
00:46:59,542 --> 00:47:01,417
They threw me out,

662
00:47:01,542 --> 00:47:05,458
and instead that railway nutcase
will talk about his spider!

663
00:47:17,083 --> 00:47:20,792
For 30 years I've been working
my arse off to prevent forgetting,

664
00:47:20,958 --> 00:47:23,875
for democracy.
And suddenly they need new faces!

665
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,417
New faces?
What does they even mean?

666
00:47:26,542 --> 00:47:28,375
Once a victim, always a victim.

667
00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:31,667
Rubbish. The Chancellor's Office
originally wanted a woman.

668
00:47:31,792 --> 00:47:32,958
Why?

669
00:47:33,083 --> 00:47:35,250
Maybe they think the peaceful revolution

670
00:47:35,375 --> 00:47:37,583
that grew from the hearts of the people

671
00:47:37,708 --> 00:47:40,250
is better represented by a woman?

672
00:47:40,375 --> 00:47:42,667
Since when did it "grow from our hearts"?

673
00:47:42,792 --> 00:47:44,708
We had specific goals.

674
00:47:44,833 --> 00:47:48,375
If it had been more feminine,
it wouldn't have happened.

675
00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:53,500
Now that video store guy who re-routed
the S-Bahn train will give a speech.

676
00:47:53,625 --> 00:47:55,625
Hartmann?
- Hartung.

677
00:47:56,167 --> 00:47:57,750
I've never heard of him.

678
00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,667
And suddenly he's everywhere.
Because he acted out of love.

679
00:48:02,167 --> 00:48:03,917
Sounds like a cheap novel.

680
00:48:04,042 --> 00:48:07,583
Love and greed,
the driving forces of humanity.

681
00:48:07,708 --> 00:48:11,125
People wanted freedom, but they also
wanted Levi's jeans and an Opel Corsa.

682
00:48:11,250 --> 00:48:12,667
Spare me your cynicism.

683
00:48:12,792 --> 00:48:15,333
East Germans have no talent for heroism.

684
00:48:15,458 --> 00:48:18,500
Most of them are too modest,
naive, and too honest.

685
00:48:18,625 --> 00:48:21,625
No Danton, no Che Guevara or Lech Walesa.

686
00:48:21,750 --> 00:48:24,500
Just a grey SchabowskKi
in an even greyer suit,

687
00:48:24,625 --> 00:48:26,583
babbling to himself in confusion:

688
00:48:26,708 --> 00:48:31,000
"To my knowledge, it comes into
immediately, and is without delay."

689
00:48:31,667 --> 00:48:35,250
They lack ambition and narcissism
or that iconic indifference!

690
00:48:35,375 --> 00:48:37,083
His suit was blue.

691
00:48:38,833 --> 00:48:43,375
Something stinks, Holger.
Why did he suddenly pop up now?

692
00:48:43,542 --> 00:48:48,500
I've worked for this for 30 years!
I won't let him take that away from me.

693
00:48:48,667 --> 00:48:51,958
Once the hunting instinct is awakened,

694
00:48:52,083 --> 00:48:55,625
you know exactly where to go sniffing.
Intuition is everything.

695
00:48:55,792 --> 00:48:57,208
"DISUSED LINE"

696
00:49:08,250 --> 00:49:11,458
INFORMATION ON INCIDENT
AT FRIEDRICHSTRASSE STATION

697
00:49:14,542 --> 00:49:18,792
Michael Hartung. Try to find out
everything you can about him.

698
00:49:18,958 --> 00:49:22,083
Friends, family, neighbours,
creditors, where he goes shopping...

699
00:49:22,250 --> 00:49:25,792
If he's going to speak in the Bundestag,
we need to know everything.

700
00:49:27,875 --> 00:49:30,000
Yes, tail him around the clock.

701
00:49:37,958 --> 00:49:41,417
But please be discreet.
I'm counting on you.

702
00:49:45,167 --> 00:49:46,417
Yes!

703
00:49:48,167 --> 00:49:49,625
Good dog!

704
00:49:55,250 --> 00:49:57,583
Hello. I'd like to see Mrs Kurz.

705
00:49:59,333 --> 00:50:01,250
Kurz?
- Yes, Paula Kurz.

706
00:50:01,417 --> 00:50:05,167
1121, first floor.
- Thanks.

707
00:50:13,792 --> 00:50:16,167
BERLIN DISTRICT COURT

708
00:50:20,583 --> 00:50:22,333
Hello'

709
00:50:22,458 --> 00:50:24,542
Hi.
- I saw your car

710
00:50:24,667 --> 00:50:26,792
and thought I'd pay you a visit.

711
00:50:27,583 --> 00:50:29,375
Just by chance?

712
00:50:30,875 --> 00:50:34,667
So, you're a solicitor?
- Public prosecutor.

713
00:50:35,417 --> 00:50:38,750
It's my first time in a court.
- Count yourself lucky.

714
00:50:38,875 --> 00:50:41,792
There are few buildings
where more lies are told.

715
00:50:42,875 --> 00:50:44,917
Have a nice day too, Mr Dolos.

716
00:50:47,833 --> 00:50:50,667
Who was that?
- I put him in prison.

717
00:50:50,792 --> 00:50:53,917
He pretended to be a surgeon
and operated on people for years.

718
00:50:54,042 --> 00:50:58,500
He's actually an electrician. It took
three years before he was found out.

719
00:50:58,667 --> 00:51:01,333
Damn, I have to go to my next hearing.

720
00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:03,125
Are you free this evening?

721
00:51:13,375 --> 00:51:14,417
Hey!

722
00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:19,167
Sorry, I couldn't find a space.

723
00:51:19,292 --> 00:51:22,667
We're too late for the table anyway.
Are you very hungry?

724
00:51:22,792 --> 00:51:25,583
No, get in.
I have pretzel sticks in the car.

725
00:51:31,375 --> 00:51:33,750
Did your mother cross over later on?

726
00:51:33,875 --> 00:51:37,000
You said it was only you
and your dad on the train.

727
00:51:37,125 --> 00:51:39,667
They had an unhappy marriage,

728
00:51:39,792 --> 00:51:43,083
but they couldn't separate.
The train helped them decide.

729
00:51:43,208 --> 00:51:45,042
I mean, you.

730
00:51:45,208 --> 00:51:49,958
Then my dad moved to Stuttgart,
fell in love and had more kids.

731
00:51:50,083 --> 00:51:53,417
He died last year.
- Oh, I'm very sorry.

732
00:51:53,542 --> 00:51:55,208
I think he was happy.

733
00:51:55,625 --> 00:51:59,458
I found the abbreviation "FPB"
in his Stasi file.

734
00:52:00,250 --> 00:52:02,792
"Frequent ..."
- "... promiscuous behaviour".

735
00:52:03,708 --> 00:52:04,875
That's right.

736
00:52:06,917 --> 00:52:08,042
Hey...

737
00:52:09,042 --> 00:52:11,000
what's that strange smell?

738
00:52:15,625 --> 00:52:17,458
Shit!
- What?

739
00:52:17,583 --> 00:52:19,875
The whole time?
- Yes.

740
00:52:20,042 --> 00:52:22,125
I didn't want to say anything.

741
00:52:26,583 --> 00:52:29,333
Shoes overboard!
- Problem solved.

742
00:52:31,708 --> 00:52:33,083
Oh, wait a sec.

743
00:52:40,375 --> 00:52:41,583
Hey, careful!

744
00:52:47,542 --> 00:52:48,833
That was my space!

745
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,792
Don't shout at me.
- Piss off, you stupid cow.

746
00:52:51,958 --> 00:52:53,917
Drop dead, you plonker!

747
00:52:54,042 --> 00:52:58,208
Paragraph 185 of the penal code.
I could get fired for that, but...

748
00:52:58,792 --> 00:53:01,042
you have to let out your anger.

749
00:53:01,167 --> 00:53:03,542
Why did you invent the story
about the dancer?

750
00:53:03,708 --> 00:53:06,875
The one who you supposedly
set the points for?

751
00:53:07,458 --> 00:53:11,417
"Invented"? What do you mean?
- I'm a public prosecutor.

752
00:53:11,583 --> 00:53:15,125
I can spot a lie,
especially when it's told by a bad liar.

753
00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:17,292
Their emotions are incoherent.

754
00:53:17,417 --> 00:53:21,292
If you'd really loved that dancer, you'd
have looked for her after reunification.

755
00:53:21,958 --> 00:53:23,500
But you didn't.

756
00:53:24,167 --> 00:53:27,375
So either you didn't love her,
or she wasn't on the train.

757
00:53:27,542 --> 00:53:29,167
Or she never existed.

758
00:53:34,375 --> 00:53:35,958
I didn't know her well.

759
00:53:36,125 --> 00:53:40,833
Two years earlier, she'd married a
West Berliner who took her to New York.

760
00:53:42,125 --> 00:53:46,083
She wasn't on the train,
I made that part of the story up. But...

761
00:53:46,250 --> 00:53:48,333
But people liked it, right?

762
00:53:49,292 --> 00:53:51,208
Just tell me the truth from now on, okay?

763
00:53:52,208 --> 00:53:53,250
Okay.

764
00:53:53,375 --> 00:53:55,833
So, the stuff about the points
and the escape is true?

765
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:57,500
Yes.

766
00:53:57,667 --> 00:54:01,542
So if she wasn't on the train,
who did you send to the West?

767
00:54:03,208 --> 00:54:05,708
I sensed you were on the train.

768
00:54:06,292 --> 00:54:08,208
Sure!
- I knew we'd meet again.

769
00:54:08,375 --> 00:54:12,375
I didn't think it would take 32 years
and that you'd be so beautiful...

770
00:54:12,542 --> 00:54:16,500
That's the cheesiest thing a man
has ever said to me. It's horrible.

771
00:54:17,875 --> 00:54:20,833
I had to...
- Such a kitschy story!

772
00:54:20,958 --> 00:54:23,333
But kitsch can be wonderful...

773
00:54:25,750 --> 00:54:28,833
I've heard some things before,
but never...

774
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,500
Tracks 6, signal box 38.

775
00:54:52,875 --> 00:54:56,167
There's not much to see.
- What did you expect?

776
00:54:56,833 --> 00:54:59,375
I don't know. More, somehow.

777
00:55:00,458 --> 00:55:02,833
Reality is often disappointing.

778
00:55:04,667 --> 00:55:06,625
That sounds a bit pie in the sky.

779
00:55:06,750 --> 00:55:08,625
Is that a problem?

780
00:55:09,792 --> 00:55:12,500
No, of course not.

781
00:55:12,625 --> 00:55:15,875
Pie in the sky. A wonderful phrase.

782
00:55:18,750 --> 00:55:21,000
Would it be okay if I hugged you?

783
00:55:23,375 --> 00:55:26,125
You're the first man to ever ask me that.

784
00:55:26,250 --> 00:55:27,958
My therapist told me

785
00:55:28,083 --> 00:55:31,125
I become intimate with men too quickly.

786
00:55:44,042 --> 00:55:46,083
But it's different with you.

787
00:56:16,625 --> 00:56:20,625
You're sure you won't come in?
- I don't talk to people like that.

788
00:56:28,458 --> 00:56:32,542
Behold the great Stasi hunter,
Raslein himself!

789
00:56:32,708 --> 00:56:34,417
What an honour!

790
00:56:35,458 --> 00:56:38,125
Isn't it too cold for swimming?

791
00:56:38,583 --> 00:56:41,417
It's never too cold for a true Chekist.

792
00:56:41,542 --> 00:56:46,417
As you know, they have skin
like buffalo hide and teeth like knives.

793
00:56:46,583 --> 00:56:50,083
So I've heard.
- Isn't the old revolutionary coming in?

794
00:56:51,375 --> 00:56:53,625
He's a bit shy.

795
00:56:54,875 --> 00:56:59,375
When I told my old colleagues
that Holger Réslein was coming for tea,

796
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,042
they thought I'd finally lost my mind.

797
00:57:03,458 --> 00:57:06,167
But what can I tell you? I'm curious.

798
00:57:07,417 --> 00:57:09,292
It's an occupational illness.

799
00:57:24,333 --> 00:57:25,917
Shall we?

800
00:57:26,042 --> 00:57:27,125
Yes.

801
00:57:39,792 --> 00:57:43,958
They're not poisoned,
although I considered it.

802
00:57:49,708 --> 00:57:51,833
Why should I help you, Réslein?

803
00:57:52,333 --> 00:57:54,917
Because then you get a wish.

804
00:57:55,542 --> 00:57:57,208
Just like in a fairy tale.

805
00:57:58,250 --> 00:58:00,625
What could I wish for from you?

806
00:58:00,750 --> 00:58:03,417
Consideration, leniency, understanding.

807
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,583
At a given time in a given scenario.

808
00:58:08,708 --> 00:58:13,708
I'm often called upon
to evaluate former Stasi employees.

809
00:58:14,583 --> 00:58:17,083
When it comes to pensions, for example.

810
00:58:17,208 --> 00:58:20,792
Or land leased from the state
in remote pine forests

811
00:58:20,917 --> 00:58:22,625
with access to a lake...

812
00:58:24,792 --> 00:58:27,625
I never thought
you'd do business with the devil.

813
00:58:28,417 --> 00:58:30,583
If the devil has something to offer...

814
00:58:31,875 --> 00:58:34,083
Take one. Marker.

815
00:58:34,625 --> 00:58:36,750
And... action!

816
00:58:42,208 --> 00:58:44,708
Set the points for a vegan diet!

817
00:58:45,542 --> 00:58:48,708
I only cook Hero Sausages by Fit
on my barbeque.

818
00:58:49,292 --> 00:58:52,458
Cut! It's no good.
The sausages are too hot.

819
00:58:52,583 --> 00:58:54,708
Do we have any cold ones?

820
00:58:54,833 --> 00:58:56,708
New sausages!
- Boss?

821
00:58:56,875 --> 00:59:00,167
It sounded like "Hero Sausages by Shit".

822
00:59:00,292 --> 00:59:02,167
It's not spoken clearly.

823
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:08,792
Okay, Micha, that was great.
Really great.

824
00:59:08,917 --> 00:59:11,750
Could you say "Fit" a bit more clearly?
- Fit?

825
00:59:11,875 --> 00:59:14,000
Look, they're the clients.

826
00:59:14,125 --> 00:59:17,958
Just accentuate the word a bit more.
- "Fit".

827
00:59:18,083 --> 00:59:19,625
Yes.
- Okay.

828
00:59:19,792 --> 00:59:21,583
Okay, and again.

829
00:59:23,042 --> 00:59:25,375
And... sound!

830
00:59:26,292 --> 00:59:27,917
Sound rolling.

831
00:59:29,208 --> 00:59:31,833
Set!
- And... action!

832
00:59:33,083 --> 00:59:35,250
Set the points for vegan.

833
00:59:35,375 --> 00:59:39,542
I only cook Hero Sausages by Fit
on my barbeque.

834
00:59:39,667 --> 00:59:41,208
Cut!

835
01:00:36,292 --> 01:00:40,125
In the 1950s, losers like you
would have been shot!

836
01:00:40,542 --> 01:00:43,583
Comrades, our authority is gone!

837
01:00:44,292 --> 01:00:47,958
We will stick to the official story
of a mass exodus!

838
01:00:50,042 --> 01:00:53,208
There's nothing about this in the files.

839
01:00:53,333 --> 01:00:56,625
Of course not.
How would it have made us look?

840
01:00:56,792 --> 01:01:00,208
So, we set our entire
propaganda apparatus in motion

841
01:01:00,333 --> 01:01:03,458
and turned the whole thing
into a mass escape.

842
01:01:04,208 --> 01:01:06,667
So, Hartung was just a scapegoat?

843
01:01:07,542 --> 01:01:10,625
Exactly.
We needed an official culprit.

844
01:01:10,792 --> 01:01:12,583
Someone who was involved,

845
01:01:12,708 --> 01:01:16,292
but who we definitely knew
had nothing to do with it.

846
01:01:16,417 --> 01:01:18,583
To avoid any further attention,

847
01:01:18,708 --> 01:01:22,167
we sent that undisciplined,
work-shy fellow

848
01:01:22,292 --> 01:01:25,750
to work in the open-cast mine in Barwalde.

849
01:01:25,875 --> 01:01:27,083
After that,

850
01:01:27,250 --> 01:01:30,458
we managed to recruit
his girlfriend as an informant.

851
01:01:31,167 --> 01:01:33,167
She accompanied him.

852
01:01:33,292 --> 01:01:38,542
She kept very close tabs on him,
if I might put it that way.

853
01:01:38,667 --> 01:01:41,542
His wife Tanja was an informant?

854
01:01:42,667 --> 01:01:46,792
Not at first.
But at some point... yes.

855
01:01:46,958 --> 01:01:49,875
She left him
right after the Wall came down.

856
01:01:50,042 --> 01:01:52,208
Just try to imagine that.

857
01:01:52,333 --> 01:01:55,125
They weren't actually married, but...

858
01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:58,458
they had a daughter together.

859
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:08,125
Your mate is welcome to come in.
He'll catch a cold out there.

860
01:02:22,125 --> 01:02:23,167
Cut!

861
01:02:25,667 --> 01:02:29,125
"Hero Sausages by Fit".
Say it after me.

862
01:02:30,625 --> 01:02:33,250
Hero Sausages by Fit.

863
01:02:34,750 --> 01:02:38,083
Softer. More friendly. Okay?

864
01:02:38,208 --> 01:02:39,542
Okay.

865
01:02:39,667 --> 01:02:42,708
Hero Sausages by Shit... Fit. Fuck!

866
01:02:43,583 --> 01:02:44,625
Fit!

867
01:02:46,208 --> 01:02:48,208
Sorry, my mistake.

868
01:02:48,625 --> 01:02:52,417
Do you need a break, Micha?
- No, I can do it.

869
01:02:53,083 --> 01:02:55,792
Hero Sausages by Fits..

870
01:03:03,458 --> 01:03:07,708
I'm afraid I can't reveal any secrets
to men who don't drink vodka.

871
01:03:11,375 --> 01:03:15,042
Especially when it comes to
would-be revolutionaries.

872
01:03:17,458 --> 01:03:20,417
If Hartung didn't plan the escape,

873
01:03:20,542 --> 01:03:22,833
how did it actually happen?

874
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,750
Very well...

875
01:03:30,458 --> 01:03:35,792
The S Bahn network in Berlin
was divided, like the city.

876
01:03:35,917 --> 01:03:39,250
Friedrichstrasse Station
had the only set of points

877
01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:42,625
that connected the two networks,

878
01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:45,375
that is, East and West.

879
01:03:48,375 --> 01:03:51,125
On June 22, 1984

880
01:03:51,292 --> 01:03:53,708
there was a training drill

881
01:03:53,833 --> 01:03:57,083
for the transfer of a train
to West Berlin.

882
01:03:58,333 --> 01:04:00,167
At 3:30 am, the commander

883
01:04:00,333 --> 01:04:03,000
gave the order to release the safety bolt

884
01:04:03,167 --> 01:04:05,875
on the points at track 6.

885
01:04:07,708 --> 01:04:09,333
And that man,

886
01:04:09,458 --> 01:04:13,708
who everyone now thinks is a hero,
went over to the points...

887
01:04:14,708 --> 01:04:18,125
But instead of
removing the bolt correctly,

888
01:04:18,625 --> 01:04:22,250
the fool broke it off and went to bed.

889
01:04:22,875 --> 01:04:24,708
Nobody realized it.

890
01:04:24,875 --> 01:04:28,625
The points were jammed,
and the route to the West was open.

891
01:04:29,750 --> 01:04:32,000
And disaster ran its course.

892
01:04:32,125 --> 01:04:37,083
The first train of the day
travelled to the West by mistake,

893
01:04:37,208 --> 01:04:42,542
and it took 127 passengers along with it.

894
01:04:49,917 --> 01:04:53,417
Why are you so interested in Hartung?

895
01:04:53,583 --> 01:04:57,458
He's giving the commemorative speech
in the Bundestag.

896
01:04:58,500 --> 01:05:01,667
Hartung? In the Bundestag?

897
01:05:06,292 --> 01:05:10,042
Only a West German
could dream up something like that!

898
01:05:13,125 --> 01:05:16,292
The mother of fools is always pregnant!

899
01:05:38,417 --> 01:05:39,875
We're closed!

900
01:05:40,958 --> 01:05:43,292
Or do you want a membership card?

901
01:05:54,458 --> 01:05:57,083
I thought we were meeting
at Bernd's place?

902
01:05:57,958 --> 01:06:00,750
I finally wanted to see how my hero lives.

903
01:06:08,708 --> 01:06:10,292
You look great.

904
01:06:11,417 --> 01:06:14,083
Thanks.
- We don't have to go to Bernd's party.

905
01:06:15,167 --> 01:06:18,375
We could just stay here
and have a glass of wine.

906
01:06:56,042 --> 01:07:00,167
Was there something going on?
Between you and Beate, I mean.

907
01:07:03,208 --> 01:07:06,125
We were once lonely at the same time.

908
01:07:07,500 --> 01:07:09,208
"Lonely at the same time"...

909
01:07:10,708 --> 01:07:15,083
I was mainly lonely on my own.
Even in relationships.

910
01:07:16,250 --> 01:07:19,417
I felt that to be liked,
I had to pretend to be someone else.

911
01:07:20,042 --> 01:07:22,667
I even considered changing my name.

912
01:07:23,292 --> 01:07:25,958
I always wanted something French-sounding.

913
01:07:26,083 --> 01:07:30,167
Francoise, Camille, or Aurélie.

914
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,667
Good decision.

915
01:07:37,667 --> 01:07:40,208
What?
- Not to change your name.

916
01:07:41,042 --> 01:07:42,833
Paula is a pretty name.

917
01:07:43,667 --> 01:07:46,333
You think so?
- Yes.

918
01:07:50,875 --> 01:07:54,000
Tell me, where do you sleep here?

919
01:08:33,500 --> 01:08:37,750
Enveloped by dreams and stories,
they lay down...

920
01:08:38,708 --> 01:08:40,458
and fell asleep.

921
01:08:42,458 --> 01:08:45,000
And as they drifted off,

922
01:08:45,917 --> 01:08:50,042
he asked himself
why she wanted to see him again.

923
01:08:52,917 --> 01:08:56,042
Because of the boozehound, she whispered.

924
01:08:56,958 --> 01:09:01,458
That evening, when she spoke to him
after the TV show

925
01:09:01,583 --> 01:09:05,125
and he invited her for a drink or two,

926
01:09:06,042 --> 01:09:09,708
he said that he wasn't a "boozehound".

927
01:09:11,417 --> 01:09:15,583
And she thought: What a great word!

928
01:09:16,292 --> 01:09:19,708
Because she loved and collected
these compound nouns,

929
01:09:20,292 --> 01:09:26,042
these wonderful put-together words
that create a whole new meaning.

930
01:09:26,917 --> 01:09:31,792
And "boozehound"
was a wonderful example of this genre.

931
01:09:34,625 --> 01:09:39,000
And how does one collect
compound nouns, he asked?

932
01:09:43,208 --> 01:09:46,833
She dug a small notebook out of her bag

933
01:09:48,083 --> 01:09:50,208
and read to him:

934
01:09:52,667 --> 01:09:56,167
Mental cinema, good-for-nothing,
half-pint,

935
01:09:56,292 --> 01:09:59,292
skirt-chaser, stage-fright,

936
01:10:00,042 --> 01:10:04,667
wanderlust, wallflower, sweet-talker,

937
01:10:05,208 --> 01:10:09,792
eye-candy, heart-ache, pipe dream,

938
01:10:09,917 --> 01:10:15,042
ill will, safety pin, tenterhooks...

939
01:10:17,292 --> 01:10:20,667
Heartfelt, he said quietly.

940
01:10:21,917 --> 01:10:24,292
Pie in the sky...

941
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,917
Love nest, he answered.

942
01:10:29,750 --> 01:10:32,875
Out of two individuals,
something new emerged.

943
01:10:35,625 --> 01:10:39,625
He was totally enchanted.
By everything.

944
01:10:41,542 --> 01:10:43,125
By her.

945
01:10:47,583 --> 01:10:49,292
What he still wanted to say was...

946
01:10:50,208 --> 01:10:51,750
he wasn't a hero.

947
01:10:53,042 --> 01:10:55,042
He was just an impostor.

948
01:10:56,333 --> 01:10:59,417
An impostor and a clown.

949
01:11:01,792 --> 01:11:03,542
Excuse me, what?

950
01:11:06,708 --> 01:11:09,250
Nothing, he replied.

951
01:11:10,625 --> 01:11:12,250
Nothing at all.

952
01:11:24,250 --> 01:11:28,167
You're going to let that fraudster
give a speech in the Bundestag?

953
01:11:28,292 --> 01:11:31,958
Careful, now!
Legally speaking, he's not a fraudster.

954
01:11:32,083 --> 01:11:35,417
He didn't act with intent.
On the contrary.

955
01:11:35,542 --> 01:11:38,042
The whole thing
was never a planned escape.

956
01:11:38,625 --> 01:11:41,250
It was just a dumb communication error

957
01:11:41,375 --> 01:11:44,167
in the chain of command, you see?

958
01:11:44,292 --> 01:11:45,583
Pure chance!

959
01:11:47,875 --> 01:11:49,417
There's something there...

960
01:11:53,292 --> 01:11:57,667
That fellow is an insult to everyone
who stood up to the regime!

961
01:11:57,792 --> 01:12:01,542
A liar and a fraud.
- Michael Hartung is not a liar,

962
01:12:01,667 --> 01:12:05,625
because a liar would never be allowed
to speak before the German Parliament.

963
01:12:05,750 --> 01:12:08,083
What did we fight for back then,

964
01:12:08,208 --> 01:12:11,292
when we ripped off
the regime's criminal mask?

965
01:12:11,458 --> 01:12:15,250
Why have I been doing commemorative
work for 30 years?

966
01:12:15,375 --> 01:12:18,625
So people don't forget the truth!

967
01:12:20,500 --> 01:12:22,125
Koni!

968
01:12:26,042 --> 01:12:28,583
There were 127 people on the S-Bahn train,

969
01:12:28,708 --> 01:12:32,667
of which 120 voluntarily returned
to the East on the same day.

970
01:12:32,792 --> 01:12:34,875
Who tells stories like that?

971
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,875
Your Stasi contact?
It's pure propaganda.

972
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:39,875
One could justifiably ask

973
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,708
whether the federally funded
"GDR, Lawless State" Centre

974
01:12:43,833 --> 01:12:46,417
is in good hands under your leadership.

975
01:12:47,542 --> 01:12:51,167
So, gentlemen...
The slightest indiscretion

976
01:12:52,083 --> 01:12:54,292
might have very unpleasant consequences.

977
01:12:54,417 --> 01:12:58,708
All files relating to the Hartung case
are to be kept under lock and key.

978
01:12:58,833 --> 01:13:01,750
Mr Roslein will kindly classify the case

979
01:13:01,875 --> 01:13:05,333
historically and scientifically
in a memorandum.

980
01:13:05,458 --> 01:13:08,250
The mass escape organised by Hartung

981
01:13:08,375 --> 01:13:11,000
contributed significantly to destabilising

982
01:13:11,167 --> 01:13:13,417
the GDR's socialist regime.

983
01:13:13,542 --> 01:13:17,625
Oh, Mr Wischnewsky?
Your 'Foundation against Forgetting',

984
01:13:17,792 --> 01:13:20,875
which does such extraordinarily
important work,

985
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,583
will receive a budget increase.

986
01:13:24,542 --> 01:13:26,417
I assume that makes you happy.

987
01:13:28,417 --> 01:13:29,875
That woman!

988
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,542
I'm going to get her!
This is not the end of the matter!

989
01:13:33,708 --> 01:13:37,542
It's not worth it.
- No way, I won't accept it!

990
01:13:39,125 --> 01:13:42,292
They just left. It may be a problem,
but I'll take care of it.

991
01:13:42,458 --> 01:13:44,542
It mustn't go wrong.
- I understand.

992
01:13:44,667 --> 01:13:48,292
What about Hartung?
- We're on the case, don't worry.

993
01:13:52,750 --> 01:13:55,083
So, this is coming out soon.

994
01:13:55,500 --> 01:13:59,500
And late next year
there'll be a major TV series.

995
01:14:00,375 --> 01:14:03,083
Tobias, who is a great film producer,

996
01:14:03,208 --> 01:14:07,125
has secured the rights
and has already got a broadcaster.

997
01:14:07,250 --> 01:14:11,208
It's an incredible story.
We're really pleased about the project.

998
01:14:11,333 --> 01:14:13,042
Oh, great.

999
01:14:13,167 --> 01:14:17,167
We've even put together a writers' room.

1000
01:14:17,292 --> 01:14:20,500
We start shooting in spring next year.
- So soon?

1001
01:14:23,333 --> 01:14:25,792
Pardon me, I'd like to introduce someone.

1002
01:14:26,542 --> 01:14:28,875
This is you, Mr Hartung.

1003
01:14:30,125 --> 01:14:33,625
Alex Allonge.
He's going to play you in the series.

1004
01:14:33,750 --> 01:14:36,292
It's a great honour, in my opinion.

1005
01:14:36,417 --> 01:14:38,417
Michael Hartung!
- Yes.

1006
01:14:38,542 --> 01:14:41,958
It's a pleasure to meet you.
- I know you, of course.

1007
01:14:42,125 --> 01:14:46,042
You're from Munich, right?
- No, I grew up in Nippes, Cologne.

1008
01:14:46,167 --> 01:14:48,125
Acting took me to Munich,

1009
01:14:48,250 --> 01:14:50,500
but my parents are from Friedenau.

1010
01:14:50,625 --> 01:14:54,167
And where did I end up? In Vienna.

1011
01:14:54,292 --> 01:14:56,083
I fell in love.

1012
01:14:58,750 --> 01:15:01,750
The physical similarity isn't important.

1013
01:15:01,875 --> 01:15:04,875
It's all about the essential personality,

1014
01:15:05,042 --> 01:15:08,292
which doesn't lie
in the external appearance,

1015
01:15:08,417 --> 01:15:11,792
but in the attitude,
the emotional world view.

1016
01:15:11,917 --> 01:15:14,125
Just think of Alex's role

1017
01:15:14,250 --> 01:15:18,667
as the Nepalese Sherpa
Tenzing Norgay in 'Everest'.

1018
01:15:19,292 --> 01:15:20,625
That was...

1019
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,042
Impressive?
- Yes.

1020
01:15:27,208 --> 01:15:29,167
A bit feeble though, huh?

1021
01:15:33,125 --> 01:15:36,667
Pretence in not the actor's art,
but rather revelation.

1022
01:15:37,292 --> 01:15:40,625
You can really feel
the energy in the room.

1023
01:15:40,792 --> 01:15:42,917
To help me develop the character,

1024
01:15:43,042 --> 01:15:45,167
maybe I could accompany you
for a few days.

1025
01:15:45,292 --> 01:15:47,500
That's a fantastic ideal!

1026
01:15:48,083 --> 01:15:50,792
Research is the key to success,
N'est-ce pas?

1027
01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:54,417
Great. What an opportunity, Micha!

1028
01:15:54,542 --> 01:15:58,000
Sure, you can follow me.
- Who's your favourite actor?

1029
01:15:58,583 --> 01:16:01,583
That's a tricky question
for a video shop owner.

1030
01:16:01,708 --> 01:16:04,167
It's as if you were to...

1031
01:16:05,042 --> 01:16:08,083
ask a father which son is his favourite.

1032
01:16:12,958 --> 01:16:14,583
Robert De Niro.

1033
01:16:38,583 --> 01:16:42,708
Thanks for your effort. We didn't just
put up with everything back then.

1034
01:16:42,833 --> 01:16:45,792
That's right. Thank you.
- That's right. Thank you.

1035
01:16:46,208 --> 01:16:48,333
And have a nice day.
- And have a nice day.

1036
01:16:48,458 --> 01:16:50,667
MIGHTILY MIGHTY

1037
01:16:50,792 --> 01:16:54,917
I unscrewed it in '95
when they were rebuilding the station.

1038
01:16:55,042 --> 01:16:57,792
Otherwise they'd have thrown it away.
It's for you.

1039
01:16:57,917 --> 01:17:00,875
It's Friedrichstrasse!
- It's Friedrichstrasse!

1040
01:17:01,042 --> 01:17:03,875
You look even better in real life
than on TV.

1041
01:17:04,042 --> 01:17:08,417
Thank you. Yoga and plenty of water.
It works wonders.

1042
01:17:09,208 --> 01:17:13,042
I have a blog about railways
and historic stations in Berlin.

1043
01:17:13,208 --> 01:17:18,333
What's your favourite station in Berlin?
- A tough question for a railwayman.

1044
01:17:18,500 --> 01:17:23,000
It's like asking a father
which of his daughters he likes best.

1045
01:17:23,500 --> 01:17:26,667
Maybe... Heidelberger Platz?

1046
01:17:26,833 --> 01:17:28,750
So, who wants a membership?

1047
01:17:28,875 --> 01:17:31,875
This isn't the red carpet.
I have to make a living, too!

1048
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,750
Here's a form. 200 euros.
The first payment is due immediately.

1049
01:17:35,917 --> 01:17:38,792
What was it like for you
when the Wall came down?

1050
01:17:39,208 --> 01:17:42,542
I'd been banished
to some godforsaken mine.

1051
01:17:42,667 --> 01:17:46,458
But you were a dissident, right?
Why did you join the protests in '897?

1052
01:17:46,583 --> 01:17:50,667
I had other worries. It was
a really cold November in Lusatia,

1053
01:17:50,833 --> 01:17:53,792
and our Nathalie had really bad pneumonia.

1054
01:17:53,917 --> 01:17:55,458
You have to imagine it:

1055
01:17:55,583 --> 01:17:58,917
Millions of tons of coal below us,
and we were freezing.

1056
01:17:59,083 --> 01:18:01,250
Like a drowning fish?
- Yes.

1057
01:18:01,375 --> 01:18:03,375
Drowned in one's own element.

1058
01:18:03,500 --> 01:18:05,375
That's how I feel now.

1059
01:18:05,500 --> 01:18:07,875
You were like a submarine.
- What?

1060
01:18:08,042 --> 01:18:11,042
Submerged in the system's water,
hoping to go unnoticed.

1061
01:18:11,167 --> 01:18:13,000
Like an underground fighter.

1062
01:18:13,125 --> 01:18:15,833
It wasn't like an American film.

1063
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:17,708
More like a Polish film.

1064
01:18:17,833 --> 01:18:21,083
'A Short Film About Killing'.
That's good.

1065
01:18:22,625 --> 01:18:24,542
I'm dreading the book launch.

1066
01:18:24,708 --> 01:18:28,667
Reading your life story to strangers,
and you didn't even write it.

1067
01:18:28,792 --> 01:18:31,375
It's not exactly a dream come true.

1068
01:18:31,500 --> 01:18:34,292
Who wrote it?
- That hack Landmann.

1069
01:18:34,417 --> 01:18:36,958
He discussed it with me, but he's a pro.

1070
01:18:42,375 --> 01:18:45,792
Micha, the book presentation.
Pick up, we're waiting!

1071
01:18:45,917 --> 01:18:49,167
This is Michael Hartung's voicemail.
Please leave a message...

1072
01:18:49,292 --> 01:18:51,833
We have to get started.

1073
01:19:05,708 --> 01:19:08,375
INCOMING CALL
LANDMANN

1074
01:19:10,625 --> 01:19:14,167
Do you have "layabout"?
- Sure, you loud-mouth.

1075
01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:17,125
Whinge-bag!
- Scaredy cat!

1076
01:19:17,250 --> 01:19:19,875
She-devil.
- Jerk-off!

1077
01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:21,750
Okay, okay...

1078
01:19:31,083 --> 01:19:33,583
Welcome to Deberitz Bookshop.

1079
01:19:33,708 --> 01:19:35,917
Michael Hartung has fallen ill

1080
01:19:36,042 --> 01:19:38,833
but I am pleased to introduce
Alexander Landmann

1081
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,583
with his book, 'Train to Freedom'.
Enjoy!

1082
01:19:41,708 --> 01:19:43,333
Thank you.

1083
01:19:47,667 --> 01:19:49,500
You're totally crazy!

1084
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:55,375
You're insane!

1085
01:19:55,542 --> 01:19:58,292
"Micha Hartung planned it meticulously."

1086
01:19:58,792 --> 01:20:03,458
He knew exactly when, avoiding
the border guards' spotlights,

1087
01:20:03,583 --> 01:20:07,500
he could lay down on the tracks
to avoid being seen.

1088
01:20:07,625 --> 01:20:08,708
That night,

1089
01:20:08,875 --> 01:20:12,875
"he literally had his ear and heart
on the tracks of history."

1090
01:20:13,917 --> 01:20:17,250
What's the most romantic thing
you ever experienced with a woman?

1091
01:20:21,833 --> 01:20:24,792
Susanne Geissler, my second girlfriend.

1092
01:20:26,083 --> 01:20:28,292
We were sitting on a raised hide...

1093
01:20:29,375 --> 01:20:31,958
We were snogging
and feeling each other up.

1094
01:20:32,667 --> 01:20:35,917
And at some point, the hide fell over.

1095
01:20:36,042 --> 01:20:37,958
It just collapsed.

1096
01:20:40,667 --> 01:20:42,667
We lay among the ruins,

1097
01:20:43,875 --> 01:20:46,917
my shirt was ripped,
my shoulder was bleeding...

1098
01:20:47,542 --> 01:20:50,500
Susanne's hand was sprained
but still working.

1099
01:20:52,417 --> 01:20:56,208
We both started laughing,
then we made love.

1100
01:20:58,833 --> 01:21:02,000
Covered in blood,
with a dislocated shoulder.

1101
01:21:02,500 --> 01:21:06,042
A romantic game
only an East German man can master.

1102
01:21:07,375 --> 01:21:10,458
And you?
What was your most romantic experience?

1103
01:21:17,333 --> 01:21:19,292
Wait, don't move.

1104
01:21:20,292 --> 01:21:22,917
Oh, look. It's beautiful.

1105
01:21:25,625 --> 01:21:29,000
"Then the moment arrived
that was to make him a hero."

1106
01:21:29,500 --> 01:21:33,917
Weeks of work culminated
in the daring act of changing the points.

1107
01:21:34,042 --> 01:21:37,083
"It was his contribution
to the collapse of the GDR regime."

1108
01:21:37,208 --> 01:21:39,250
Was your ex-wife a romantic?

1109
01:21:39,833 --> 01:21:41,667
Do you really want to know?

1110
01:21:42,250 --> 01:21:45,167
Of course. I wouldn't ask
if I didn't want to know.

1111
01:21:47,625 --> 01:21:50,375
Tanja and I met
right after my imprisonment.

1112
01:21:51,125 --> 01:21:53,542
At the Barwalde open-cast mine.

1113
01:21:53,667 --> 01:21:56,583
Oh, how romantic!
- I fell in love immediately.

1114
01:21:57,625 --> 01:21:59,750
What did you like about her?

1115
01:22:00,708 --> 01:22:02,083
Her taunting look.

1116
01:22:09,833 --> 01:22:14,458
When she laughed, she laughed.
And when she swore, she swore.

1117
01:22:15,750 --> 01:22:18,833
And when she loved, she loved.

1118
01:22:20,625 --> 01:22:23,458
Well, in the end it was a disappointment.

1119
01:22:23,583 --> 01:22:24,875
Why?

1120
01:22:25,583 --> 01:22:28,167
She left me on November 11, 1989.

1121
01:22:28,292 --> 01:22:29,417
Natalie and me.

1122
01:22:29,542 --> 01:22:32,125
She just vanished.
- On November 117

1123
01:22:32,292 --> 01:22:35,833
Two days after the Wall came down?
That's crazy.

1124
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:39,125
I often wonder how it would be

1125
01:22:39,250 --> 01:22:41,917
if certain things
had gone differently in life.

1126
01:22:42,542 --> 01:22:46,083
If you hadn't changed the points,
would I have gone to the West?

1127
01:22:46,208 --> 01:22:48,292
Would I have studied law?

1128
01:22:49,667 --> 01:22:52,625
For 30 years I've been thinking
about that fateful moment...

1129
01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:59,042
And now I've finally found you.

1130
01:23:01,250 --> 01:23:03,292
I didn't change the points.

1131
01:23:04,875 --> 01:23:07,917
I broke that bloody bolt by accident.

1132
01:23:08,583 --> 01:23:12,250
I never told anyone.
- You're kidding me!

1133
01:23:12,375 --> 01:23:15,750
I was afraid,
so I just went back to my workshop.

1134
01:23:15,917 --> 01:23:18,875
I had no idea that an S-Bahn train
was passing through.

1135
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,750
I didn't have a plan.

1136
01:23:23,583 --> 01:23:25,292
That can't be true.

1137
01:23:28,375 --> 01:23:31,542
Now that journalist
has made a big deal out of it.

1138
01:23:31,667 --> 01:23:32,875
And I...

1139
01:23:34,250 --> 01:23:36,208
I just needed the money.

1140
01:23:45,833 --> 01:23:48,833
But we still have a shared history.

1141
01:23:48,958 --> 01:23:50,458
I mean, us...

1142
01:24:05,708 --> 01:24:07,000
Paula?

1143
01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:08,667
Paula!

1144
01:24:36,542 --> 01:24:39,208
Wish him all the best.
Sarah, with an "H".

1145
01:24:39,375 --> 01:24:43,708
"For the man I love to hate,
Holger Réslein. A Chekist in spirit."

1146
01:24:47,083 --> 01:24:50,917
Tell your friend
an old companion sends his greetings.

1147
01:24:51,625 --> 01:24:55,917
Unreliability is the most vile
of all character traits, Micha!

1148
01:24:56,042 --> 01:24:59,542
You know why? Because you
drag other people into your shit!

1149
01:25:30,375 --> 01:25:32,375
The things I can have...

1150
01:25:32,542 --> 01:25:34,542
I never get!

1151
01:25:36,708 --> 01:25:39,333
And the things I can get

1152
01:25:39,458 --> 01:25:41,750
Are things I don't like!

1153
01:25:44,833 --> 01:25:46,833
THE WHITE RIBBON

1154
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,250
Stop, you can't go in there.

1155
01:25:57,667 --> 01:26:00,250
Sorry, Mr Landmann.
This gentleman just...

1156
01:26:02,542 --> 01:26:05,375
What do you want?
- Michael Hartung.

1157
01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:07,042
I know he's an imposter.

1158
01:26:08,917 --> 01:26:12,042
Maybe you could introduce yourself.
- Certainly.

1159
01:26:12,167 --> 01:26:15,625
Harald Wischnewsky, head of the
'Foundation against Forgetting',

1160
01:26:15,792 --> 01:26:18,750
You've given a platform
to a liar and fraudster.

1161
01:26:18,875 --> 01:26:21,875
It's your journalistic duty...
- Stop, stop, stop!

1162
01:26:22,542 --> 01:26:26,208
It's quite late,
so if you've come here to insult me,

1163
01:26:26,333 --> 01:26:29,083
please use the comment section
on our website.

1164
01:26:30,333 --> 01:26:33,167
So, we set our entire
propaganda apparatus in motion

1165
01:26:33,292 --> 01:26:37,208
and turned the whole thing
into a mass escape.

1166
01:26:37,333 --> 01:26:39,292
With the necessary proof:

1167
01:26:39,417 --> 01:26:41,500
A confession by Hartung,

1168
01:26:41,667 --> 01:26:44,167
and a file with all the trimmings.

1169
01:26:44,333 --> 01:26:47,667
Stasi Lieutenant Fritz Teubner.
Ever heard of him?

1170
01:26:47,792 --> 01:26:50,625
Of course not,
because you didn't do your research.

1171
01:26:51,125 --> 01:26:54,833
Otherwise you'd know that
the whole thing was a Stasi blunder

1172
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,375
that was sold as a "mass escape".

1173
01:26:57,500 --> 01:27:01,583
I'm willing to get rid of this recording.
- Are you blackmailing a journalist?

1174
01:27:01,750 --> 01:27:04,667
What?
You should write the truth!

1175
01:27:04,833 --> 01:27:08,500
The truth? There's no such thing.
Everyone has their own truth.

1176
01:27:09,083 --> 01:27:10,792
This is the truth.

1177
01:27:11,333 --> 01:27:14,583
I'll give you one last chance
to set this right.

1178
01:27:15,083 --> 01:27:19,500
Otherwise, I'll make sure that your...
- Threats can make you liable!

1179
01:27:19,667 --> 01:27:23,250
Fine, we can go to court.
Our legal department just expanded.

1180
01:27:23,375 --> 01:27:26,167
They'll be pleased.
- You know it yourself!

1181
01:27:26,292 --> 01:27:28,583
You can't cover up for that guy!

1182
01:27:32,125 --> 01:27:35,625
Landmann's office here.
Security, please. Right away.

1183
01:27:37,583 --> 01:27:38,917
Go ahead.

1184
01:27:39,083 --> 01:27:41,583
Mentally disturbed. Possibly dangerous.

1185
01:27:42,667 --> 01:27:45,375
Yes. He might even be armed.

1186
01:27:48,500 --> 01:27:49,958
Please come quickly!

1187
01:27:50,708 --> 01:27:51,958
Hurry!

1188
01:27:52,375 --> 01:27:54,542
That's... that's...

1189
01:28:11,125 --> 01:28:13,958
Leave me alone.
- Are you drunk or stoned?

1190
01:28:14,083 --> 01:28:16,417
I won't give the speech!
Not in the Bundestag, nor...

1191
01:28:16,542 --> 01:28:19,167
Let me in. It's really important.
- Piss off!

1192
01:28:23,833 --> 01:28:25,458
Hey, are you...?

1193
01:28:30,042 --> 01:28:31,667
You're a pain!

1194
01:28:38,708 --> 01:28:41,125
Stasi Lieutenant Fritz Teubner.

1195
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:43,000
Heard of him?

1196
01:28:44,708 --> 01:28:47,458
Is he still alive?
- Yes, he's still alive.

1197
01:28:47,625 --> 01:28:49,292
And he's not the only one.

1198
01:28:49,417 --> 01:28:51,708
They're threatening to spill the beans.

1199
01:28:55,958 --> 01:28:59,750
That speech is your only chance
to get out of this mess.

1200
01:29:00,292 --> 01:29:05,125
Once you've been in the Bundestag,
it's basically got an official seal.

1201
01:29:05,750 --> 01:29:07,750
I told Paula everything.

1202
01:29:07,875 --> 01:29:12,000
The truth. I thought it was best
to just tell the truth.

1203
01:29:12,167 --> 01:29:14,000
What can happen?

1204
01:29:14,125 --> 01:29:17,500
Who are you? Gandhi? Jesus?

1205
01:29:19,083 --> 01:29:23,417
You didn't care about the truth
as long as the money was rolling in.

1206
01:29:24,500 --> 01:29:27,917
You'll ruin everything.
And I'll lose my job!

1207
01:29:31,292 --> 01:29:33,333
I can forget the journalism award.

1208
01:29:36,875 --> 01:29:39,167
And the publisher
will demand compensation.

1209
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:42,542
All the love and admiration...

1210
01:29:43,417 --> 01:29:45,042
that you still enjoy,

1211
01:29:45,542 --> 01:29:49,208
will turn into hatred and contempt!

1212
01:29:49,333 --> 01:29:52,333
Our children
will be the children of fraudsters!

1213
01:29:52,458 --> 01:29:55,833
Our families
will be the families of fraudsters!

1214
01:29:59,917 --> 01:30:01,958
This is killing me, man!

1215
01:30:04,542 --> 01:30:06,750
Don't screw this up, Micha.

1216
01:30:06,917 --> 01:30:10,167
How did Paula react
when you told her the truth?

1217
01:30:11,375 --> 01:30:14,542
You see?
Nobody wants to hear the truth.

1218
01:30:16,083 --> 01:30:20,792
Mundus vult decipi. The world wants
to be deceived, so let us deceive it!

1219
01:30:20,917 --> 01:30:22,875
I'll help you write the speech.

1220
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:25,917
When all this anniversary nonsense is over

1221
01:30:26,042 --> 01:30:28,458
nobody will care anymore.

1222
01:30:28,583 --> 01:30:32,875
You'll have your old life back,
and you'll still be a hero. I promise.

1223
01:31:04,792 --> 01:31:06,250
Cheers.

1224
01:31:08,042 --> 01:31:09,625
Have you finished?

1225
01:31:12,083 --> 01:31:13,208
Yes!

1226
01:31:16,583 --> 01:31:18,042
Thank you.

1227
01:31:18,208 --> 01:31:21,875
"A cautionary dictum in times
of an attention-deficient present

1228
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,833
characterized by
a repressive mentali..."

1229
01:31:25,625 --> 01:31:27,625
Attentio... at ten...

1230
01:31:27,750 --> 01:31:30,375
Attention-deficient present!

1231
01:31:30,500 --> 01:31:32,417
A cautionary dictum in times

1232
01:31:32,542 --> 01:31:36,458
of an attention-deficient present
characterized by a repressive mentality.

1233
01:31:37,167 --> 01:31:39,125
Already lost touch with the outside world?

1234
01:31:44,250 --> 01:31:46,417
Last year I was here twice...

1235
01:31:46,583 --> 01:31:49,042
Oh, hello!
- Hello.

1236
01:31:49,167 --> 01:31:51,500
"A cautionary dictum in times"

1237
01:31:51,625 --> 01:31:57,875
of an attention-deficient present
characterized by a repressive mentality.”

1238
01:32:00,542 --> 01:32:02,208
Where are you going?

1239
01:32:02,333 --> 01:32:03,708
I need to pee.

1240
01:32:09,750 --> 01:32:15,375
In times
of an attention-deficient present...

1241
01:32:21,708 --> 01:32:25,208
I know that you didn't
change the points on purpose.

1242
01:32:27,667 --> 01:32:29,917
You're not the only one.

1243
01:32:30,917 --> 01:32:32,667
I was in prison.

1244
01:32:32,792 --> 01:32:35,000
I'm sorry. How long?

1245
01:32:35,125 --> 01:32:38,083
Three years.
- Three years?

1246
01:32:38,208 --> 01:32:40,000
Flyers.

1247
01:32:40,125 --> 01:32:44,792
A few leaflets we typed out
at the Protestant Peace Circle.

1248
01:32:44,917 --> 01:32:48,875
No one wanted to hand them out
except Heiko, who had a screw loose.

1249
01:32:51,292 --> 01:32:53,958
Unlike me, you're a real hero.

1250
01:32:54,083 --> 01:32:57,125
Heiko was crazy, cognitively impaired.

1251
01:32:57,250 --> 01:33:00,458
He always spoke so slowly,
and it got on our nerves.

1252
01:33:00,583 --> 01:33:05,250
But since we were good Christians,
we pretended he was normal.

1253
01:33:06,167 --> 01:33:11,417
But what normal person in the GDR
would hand out flyers at Alexanderplatz?

1254
01:33:11,542 --> 01:33:14,542
Even the police realized that.
They didn't even want to arrest him.

1255
01:33:14,667 --> 01:33:17,583
I was branded the ringleader
and ended up in prison,

1256
01:33:17,708 --> 01:33:19,833
and Heiko went home.

1257
01:33:19,958 --> 01:33:23,000
You sacrificed yourself for him.
Congratulations.

1258
01:33:23,125 --> 01:33:25,000
You're a good person.

1259
01:33:25,958 --> 01:33:27,250
A good person?

1260
01:33:28,208 --> 01:33:31,042
I'm a damned fool. A traitor.

1261
01:33:32,958 --> 01:33:36,417
I incriminated Heiko.
I put all the blame on him.

1262
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:41,125
Years later, I found out
that he'd been committed.

1263
01:33:41,667 --> 01:33:43,333
And he died there.

1264
01:33:51,792 --> 01:33:54,333
But at least you've told the truth now.

1265
01:33:54,875 --> 01:33:57,833
That's better than living a lie
your whole life.

1266
01:33:59,167 --> 01:34:01,792
Bye.
- Well, it doesn't really matter to me.

1267
01:34:01,917 --> 01:34:05,667
I mean, compared to what
the Stasi did to you.

1268
01:34:05,792 --> 01:34:07,458
What do you mean?

1269
01:34:08,292 --> 01:34:10,375
Well, Tanja...
- What?

1270
01:34:13,542 --> 01:34:15,792
Don't tell me you didn't know?

1271
01:34:15,917 --> 01:34:16,958
What?

1272
01:34:18,750 --> 01:34:20,375
As far as I know,

1273
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:23,750
she was eventually recruited by the Stasi.

1274
01:34:23,875 --> 01:34:25,667
And then she went home

1275
01:34:27,042 --> 01:34:29,458
and monitored you, so to speak.

1276
01:34:30,083 --> 01:34:31,542
What did you say?

1277
01:34:32,375 --> 01:34:35,625
It doesn't necessarily mean
she didn't love you.

1278
01:34:37,125 --> 01:34:40,000
These things are usually more complex
than they seem.

1279
01:34:44,875 --> 01:34:46,625
I'm very sorry.

1280
01:35:24,292 --> 01:35:25,542
He's...

1281
01:35:32,500 --> 01:35:33,625
Micha?

1282
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,375
It's about to start. Come out.

1283
01:35:45,625 --> 01:35:47,375
You're not getting cold feet, are you?

1284
01:35:48,500 --> 01:35:51,500
I just need some peace and fucking quiet!

1285
01:35:52,458 --> 01:35:55,500
This is not the time
for chilling out, Micha.

1286
01:35:57,417 --> 01:35:58,833
Micha!

1287
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:03,208
Okay, I'll give the speech.
But the way I want.

1288
01:36:03,625 --> 01:36:05,583
I'll tell the truth.

1289
01:36:05,708 --> 01:36:08,333
Don't do that, you'll ruin everything!

1290
01:36:08,875 --> 01:36:11,542
And here comes the President

1291
01:36:11,708 --> 01:36:16,875
of the 19th German Parliament,
Dr Wolfgang Schéuble...

1292
01:36:17,042 --> 01:36:19,792
Michael! You can't do this!

1293
01:36:23,583 --> 01:36:26,250
Ah, here you are, Mr Hartung!
- Where do I go?

1294
01:36:26,375 --> 01:36:29,125
Let's sit down a moment.
- I'd rather stand.

1295
01:36:29,917 --> 01:36:31,125
Alright.

1296
01:36:32,083 --> 01:36:36,167
Mr Hartung, this is terribly sad,
but I regret to inform you

1297
01:36:36,292 --> 01:36:38,458
that you won't be giving a speech.

1298
01:36:38,625 --> 01:36:40,167
What?
- What?

1299
01:36:40,292 --> 01:36:42,042
I'm just as surprised as you.

1300
01:36:42,542 --> 01:36:44,333
It seems there was a re-think

1301
01:36:44,458 --> 01:36:47,208
about the speech
and its effect on the public.

1302
01:36:47,333 --> 01:36:49,583
They chose someone better.

1303
01:36:49,750 --> 01:36:53,000
Better?
- Well, not better...

1304
01:36:53,125 --> 01:36:56,292
I mean, heroic deeds
can't really be compared.

1305
01:36:56,417 --> 01:36:59,542
Let's just say
it was someone more suitable.

1306
01:37:00,208 --> 01:37:03,708
I'm sorry, but the decision
lies outside of my authority.

1307
01:37:03,833 --> 01:37:06,750
Ms Karume, could you spare a moment?

1308
01:37:07,250 --> 01:37:11,667
This is Mr Hartung.
Mr Hartung, our speaker, Ms Karume.

1309
01:37:11,792 --> 01:37:13,083
Hello.
- Hello.

1310
01:37:13,667 --> 01:37:15,292
What was your heroic act?

1311
01:37:16,042 --> 01:37:19,833
Ms Karume was an employee
at the German Embassy in Prague.

1312
01:37:19,958 --> 01:37:22,917
In 1989, she showed
great courage in allowing

1313
01:37:23,083 --> 01:37:26,083
hundreds of GDR refugees
access to the embassy garden.

1314
01:37:26,250 --> 01:37:29,917
Actually, I just left
the garden gate open.

1315
01:37:30,042 --> 01:37:32,708
Well, yes, but that's...
Mr Hartung?

1316
01:37:32,875 --> 01:37:35,833
We reserved you a seat
in the audience area.

1317
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:37,292
Ms Karume?

1318
01:37:37,458 --> 01:37:41,375
It's a pleasure. Did you find us easily?
- Yes!

1319
01:37:43,875 --> 01:37:45,208
Ms Karume?

1320
01:37:46,292 --> 01:37:48,708
Alexander Landmann, Fakt Magazine.

1321
01:37:49,417 --> 01:37:52,042
It sounds like a fascinating story!

1322
01:38:41,292 --> 01:38:44,917
FALL OF THE WALL
30TH ANNIVERSARY

1323
01:38:45,875 --> 01:38:48,625
You can't sit here.
- Leave me alone!

1324
01:38:48,750 --> 01:38:52,708
That's the barrier for the event.
It tips over when you lean on it.

1325
01:38:52,833 --> 01:38:57,000
I just want to stay here!
- Listen, you can't sit here,

1326
01:38:57,125 --> 01:38:58,833
you can't lean, and you can't stay!

1327
01:38:58,958 --> 01:39:00,583
Maybe you had a bad day...

1328
01:39:00,708 --> 01:39:03,125
I didn't!
My whole life was a bad day!

1329
01:39:03,250 --> 01:39:04,917
Now piss off, idiots!

1330
01:39:05,042 --> 01:39:06,958
Was that an insult?
- Yes.

1331
01:39:07,083 --> 01:39:08,458
On the ground!

1332
01:39:08,583 --> 01:39:10,625
Down! No sudden movements!

1333
01:39:10,750 --> 01:39:12,958
Wankers!
- 1043 to HQ!

1334
01:39:13,125 --> 01:39:16,125
We need backup. Hannah-Arendt Strasse.

1335
01:39:16,250 --> 01:39:18,750
Isn't he the spider guy
from the S-Bahn story?

1336
01:39:19,417 --> 01:39:21,792
On the talk show with Kathi Witt?

1337
01:39:21,917 --> 01:39:24,125
Yes. What's Kati actually like?

1338
01:39:24,292 --> 01:39:27,792
Very nice.
- Good, I thought she would be.

1339
01:39:27,958 --> 01:39:30,750
The woman who is now going to speak...

1340
01:39:30,917 --> 01:39:32,583
Where's our Micha?

1341
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:37,208
Maybe there are two speakers?

1342
01:39:37,792 --> 01:39:41,000
Sometimes it's the little things

1343
01:39:41,125 --> 01:39:44,208
that shape the course of history.

1344
01:39:49,250 --> 01:39:51,875
He's a liar.

1345
01:39:53,250 --> 01:39:55,417
Deep down, I always knew it.

1346
01:39:57,417 --> 01:40:01,583
You wanted it to be true,
that this time it would be special.

1347
01:40:02,792 --> 01:40:06,583
You fell in love with the idea
of a fateful encounter.

1348
01:40:07,500 --> 01:40:09,958
But instead of indulging the fantasy,

1349
01:40:10,083 --> 01:40:14,750
you should have given
your real-life meeting a chance.

1350
01:40:17,792 --> 01:40:20,500
You've read that?
- Yes.

1351
01:40:21,042 --> 01:40:24,875
It's a good story.
The style is a bit sentimental, but...

1352
01:40:25,583 --> 01:40:28,250
There's this scene with a spider...

1353
01:40:29,792 --> 01:40:31,333
It made me cry.

1354
01:40:37,708 --> 01:40:39,542
Dear Natalie,

1355
01:40:40,375 --> 01:40:43,000
I've been wanting to tell you

1356
01:40:43,125 --> 01:40:47,083
that it didn't happen
the way people say it did.

1357
01:40:48,083 --> 01:40:52,292
Dear Natalie, what I have to tell you
will not be easy for me...

1358
01:40:53,417 --> 01:40:56,000
Mr Hartung?
- I'm not a hero.

1359
01:40:57,417 --> 01:41:00,292
Hi, Dad.
- Natalie, I'm so sorry!

1360
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:02,625
What happened?

1361
01:41:02,792 --> 01:41:07,792
But I didn't dare
because I was not totally blameless.

1362
01:41:13,417 --> 01:41:17,208
Today I found out that your mum
was working for the Stasi.

1363
01:41:19,542 --> 01:41:22,000
That's probably why she left us.

1364
01:41:23,833 --> 01:41:25,542
Yes, I know, Dad.

1365
01:41:26,792 --> 01:41:28,292
You knew?

1366
01:41:28,958 --> 01:41:33,875
A few years ago
I made a request to view the files.

1367
01:41:34,458 --> 01:41:37,875
I wanted to know more about my family.
About you and Mum.

1368
01:41:38,292 --> 01:41:42,917
When I read about it,
I decided to keep it to myself.

1369
01:41:44,292 --> 01:41:46,292
I wanted to spare you that.

1370
01:41:59,167 --> 01:42:00,458
You know,

1371
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:03,917
despite all the shit
we went through in that country...

1372
01:42:05,792 --> 01:42:08,625
something as fantastic as you
came out of it, Natalie.

1373
01:42:12,583 --> 01:42:14,667
You're the best thing that happened to me.

1374
01:42:44,500 --> 01:42:46,208
Paula?

1375
01:43:02,542 --> 01:43:05,750
Someone has to make the first step.
- Yes.

1376
01:43:05,875 --> 01:43:10,292
It's better to get to the point
straight away than to wait.

1377
01:43:11,458 --> 01:43:13,292
Can you read their lips?

1378
01:43:13,417 --> 01:43:17,625
I'm a bit out of practice.
I mean, what will they say?

1379
01:43:18,917 --> 01:43:22,167
Typical reunion dialogue, I guess.

1380
01:43:22,583 --> 01:43:24,333
Happy end or whatever.

1381
01:43:25,083 --> 01:43:26,375
Probably.

1382
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:29,292
Why did you lie at the train station?

1383
01:43:29,458 --> 01:43:34,875
"Why did you like my brain staple"?

1384
01:43:36,292 --> 01:43:38,583
"Brain staple"?
- Staple?

1385
01:43:39,625 --> 01:43:41,333
"Why did you like..."

1386
01:43:41,500 --> 01:43:46,333
Scan, maybe?
- Why did you like my brain scan?

1387
01:43:47,750 --> 01:43:50,042
It didn't feel like a lie.

1388
01:43:51,292 --> 01:43:55,042
I just didn't want to ruin the thing
that had developed between us.

1389
01:43:56,333 --> 01:44:00,167
You knew me as a hero,
so I tried to play that role.

1390
01:44:02,583 --> 01:44:04,750
I didn't want to disappoint you.

1391
01:44:06,667 --> 01:44:11,458
You know, I think I always expected
too much of my partners.

1392
01:44:13,458 --> 01:44:15,417
I wanted to find a soulmate,

1393
01:44:16,083 --> 01:44:20,083
a good story,
something out of the ordinary.

1394
01:44:21,917 --> 01:44:25,042
But in the end, it was less about you...

1395
01:44:27,125 --> 01:44:28,583
than about me.

1396
01:44:30,667 --> 01:44:33,292
The hole that I wanted to fill.

1397
01:44:33,917 --> 01:44:36,667
"The mole I wanted to kill".

1398
01:44:38,500 --> 01:44:41,875
Wanted to kill?
- It's the Chancellery.

1399
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:44,000
"Break off surveillance".

1400
01:44:44,625 --> 01:44:47,583
I'd have bet 50 euros
that they would get together.

1401
01:44:49,250 --> 01:44:52,042
Not everything has to end
in a relationship.

1402
01:44:54,417 --> 01:44:58,375
He said,
and laid his head on her shoulder.

1403
01:45:24,542 --> 01:45:28,375
MONTHS LATER

1404
01:45:42,875 --> 01:45:45,792
Look at that girl. It's me!

1405
01:45:45,917 --> 01:45:47,417
I'm sorry.

1406
01:45:54,542 --> 01:45:56,792
Good. Thank you!

1407
01:45:57,208 --> 01:45:59,750
Great. Let's carry on.

1408
01:45:59,875 --> 01:46:03,292
Let's carry on.
- Extras disembarking the S-Bahn!

1409
01:46:03,417 --> 01:46:05,792
It looked authentic, right?
- Yes.

1410
01:46:05,917 --> 01:46:08,667
Can I have some chocolate?
- Sure.

1411
01:46:08,792 --> 01:46:10,083
Hello, Micha!

1412
01:46:10,750 --> 01:46:13,708
These are my grandchildren
and my daughter.

1413
01:46:13,833 --> 01:46:16,583
This is Alex.
- This is all because of you.

1414
01:46:16,708 --> 01:46:19,375
Would you do it for me, Micha?

1415
01:46:19,500 --> 01:46:24,042
The speech, sure!
I'd start with, "Dear Chancellor",

1416
01:46:24,167 --> 01:46:26,125
dear Federal President,

1417
01:46:26,250 --> 01:46:30,583
You expected a true hero, a man
who took action at the right moment,

1418
01:46:30,708 --> 01:46:34,958
But that's not me..."
- Micha, do it over there!

1419
01:46:35,083 --> 01:46:39,083
Yes, even better.
- Stand there as if you're rehearsing.

1420
01:46:39,208 --> 01:46:44,750
I didn't realize that my actions would
result in the GDR's greatest mass escape.

1421
01:46:44,875 --> 01:46:48,208
It was pure chance. It just happened.

1422
01:46:48,333 --> 01:46:52,000
And it would've never gone public
if I'd not been interviewed.

1423
01:46:52,583 --> 01:46:57,208
But as it turned out,
the coincidence became a little lie,

1424
01:46:57,333 --> 01:47:00,250
and the lie became bigger and bigger...

1425
01:47:01,208 --> 01:47:05,042
And in the end I didn't know
what was true or not.

1426
01:47:06,542 --> 01:47:10,167
But isn't it true for most of us,
that in life...

1427
01:47:10,917 --> 01:47:13,500
we describe things
as we'd like them to be.

1428
01:47:13,625 --> 01:47:18,125
You know the phrase, "History is the lie
that people have agreed on".

1429
01:47:18,250 --> 01:47:20,417
It took me a while to understand

1430
01:47:20,542 --> 01:47:24,125
that it means we create a truth
that we take for reality.

1431
01:47:24,250 --> 01:47:26,458
Actually, we're all story-tellers.

1432
01:47:26,583 --> 01:47:31,583
And sometimes, a story contains
more truth than reality itself.

1433
01:47:33,417 --> 01:47:34,750
Right?

1434
01:47:35,625 --> 01:47:38,833
Anyway, that's what |I...
- Fantastic! Just like that!

1435
01:47:38,958 --> 01:47:41,333
Just like that. Goosebumps!
- Goosebumps!

1436
01:47:41,458 --> 01:47:43,417
Can you do it just like that?

1437
01:47:44,667 --> 01:47:47,458
Okay, let's rehearse it with Alex.

1438
01:47:53,500 --> 01:47:55,542
Quiet, please.