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We always knew this day would come.

Political conviction must be measured by action, you said.

Sabine Cutter - your new target.

A hand on her thigh, at most on her breast...

Got that in writing, maybe?

I speak, you listen.

I need to tell you something, Dad.

It's better now - truly!

Then you can show me.

I won’t sacrifice my daughter on the altar of a gold medal.

There will be consequences!

We dig at night, six hour shifts.

In a month or so, I’ll join you in the West.

We'll be together.

Tobias is sure to tell on us.

And where is this tunnel?

Bargmann bakery.

Schachhauser Street.

My mother and sister died when I was a baby.

Hit and run.

I've been thinking of you.

When can I see you?

Keep walking.

Okay.

Shit, shit, shit!

You can’t go back there. Ever.

That question... “Do you want to know the day you'll die?"

Answer A, "Yes, because I can live life to the full until then."

Answer B: "No, because I’d know I'm just heading to my death

with no escape."

Welcome to Answer B, comrade.

No matter what they do, my father’ll never name us.

They’ll lock him up, throw away the key.

That loose-lipped fuck Tobias did this.

-We don’t know that. -Who else knew about it?

And he’ll pay for it.

Jesus, will he pay.

Are you in?

Answer B. I’m in.

Assume sleeping position!

Hands on your chest!

That all you've got?

I went through worse with the Nazis.

And what for?

Mrs Weber?

Can we talk?

I’ve seen you at the swimming centre.

I take an interest in the athletes there.

An active interest...

In your daughter for example.

Her coach had hopes she’d make the Olympic team.

Not just him.

It was my husband pulled her from the squad.

We're very aware of the demands of her training

on her and the family.

That's why our athletes' families are rewarded for their sacrifice.

A new apartment, new car, use of a summer Dacha, financial rewards.

Untold doors could have opened for you all.

It’s not I who slammed them shut.

The Championship heats are next week.

Potential like Klara’s is a rare gift.

One day she’ll ask why you didn’t fight for it.

Why you didn’t fight for her.

When a child has a tantrum, we distract them out of it...

God knows men can be worse than kids.

Your husband surely has the same needs as any other man?

Socialism means...

Peace - right to work - medical care - housing - social security - education...

The right of all children to fulfill their potential.

They made me do it!

I didn’t name anyone.

Not one name!

I swear! Not one!

Nein. Nein.

-What’s all this? -Medschool application.

Going for Leipzig?

Clearing centre wants everything:

Teacher reports, academic record since year zero, FDJ merits...

They want the best. Which you are.

Why so late?

Giving your mother space.

You and me both.

Welcome to my world.

Do it in pencil, I’ll check it tomorrow.

You did the right thing, Dad.

Klara will thank you one day.

PTA meeting, I'll need the car tomorrow.

This is what’s been missing.

Let this be a new start for us.

-Stop it. -Don’t shut me out.

Is your opinion of me so impoverished?

An offer of forbidden cunt, I’ll give in?

All the times you said I never make a stand? Now I have!

Sorry it didn't work out as planned.

We both know why you did it.

And the irony? Klara is so desperate for your affection

she’ll forgive you for blighting her future!

I’ll see you in hell first.

Like you care about her future.

And stupid me thought it was self serving!

I did it for us all, for the family.

Quite a trick believing your own lies, Gita.

The years of practice paid off.

You’re the past master on it...

since the day Klara was born!

Trying to prove you’re the perfect father

you overlooked what you’ve done to Juliane.

You think they’ll let her into university now?

She’ll be lucky to get a job cleaning toilets.

Bravo.

You finally treated them equally, screwed up both their lives.

They’ve stopped.

It's OK.

I know what the swimming meant to you.

-But I couldn’t stand by and... -I know.

Just... You’re used to it.

Being the best. Winning.

This was my turn.

How would you know if the drugs made you a winner - or you?

Shut the fuck up! Quiet for God's sake.

This is how it will be.

I’m not asking for permission.

Tomorrow Klara resumes training for the World Championship heats.

You can be part of it, part of this family. Or not.

Either way it’s irrelevant.

That's great.

My father got it in Greenwich Village before the war.

-Is it a first edition? -He’d make us wear gloves if so.

Is he always so...?

The protective father thing.

Still up to go out later?

I thought you’d never ask.

I bought cognac - it’s in the car.

-No need-- -I insist. Be right back.

-I said I was crap. -I thought it was a hustle.

You never learnt to play as a kid?

Too busy in my darkroom.

So much for misspent youth.

You can get up to a lot in a darkroom.

-Really? -Oh, a lot.

Okay...

I see I’ve my work cut out.

This is your bridge hand.

There’s a closed bridge...

or an open bridge.

Arm and shoulder relaxed.

Check your balance.

Strike the ball in line with your trajectory.

-In line with the trajectory... -Slide the cue, don’t thrust.

Slide don’t thrust.

Yeah!

I’d ask you in but...

Your guardian at the gate...

What this time with Gita?

The usual, my failings.

I feel like I’m sitting on a branch I'm sawing off myself.

Did you ever favour one twin over the other?

When you were all still together?

Is that why she left Lars with you?

Your ties to him?

You know why she left him.

She didn’t want to leave me with nothing.

You ever regret it?

The lie that they died?

So he’d grow up thinking his mother abandoned him?

All these years,

I pass girls in the street, I think

she would be that age now,

starting school...

or graduating.

It physically hurts knowing I’ll never see her.

Never say never.

She said they were moving to America. They’re as good as dead to me.

Maybe it’s that Juliane was the first born.

The newness, the intensity.

The feelings she brought out,

I never knew I had.

But second time round...

If you think that’s easy to say...

Don’t make the mistake I did, Conrad.

I was too damn proud to fight for them.

There is no excuse.

I know you can’t forgive me or...

But when you make it over the Wall...

Are you fucking crazy?

Anyone see you come in?

-Follow you? -I'm not stupid.

Though my actions suggest otherwise.

Say what you came to and go.

When you’re in the West, if there’s anything you need.

Place to stay, money, anything...

You can reach me here.

They shut the tunnel down. Someone ratted.

I’ve a job, a roof over my head.

I’ll learn to count my blessings.

A fucking pipe dream anyway.

Fuck off!

Every time you go back west like Cinderella at midnight...

I’ll be reminded what I have here isn’t enough.

So just go, get the fuck out.

Grab a glass of water first?

What’s that stuff?

Lesson plans.

How magnets work.

How submarines work.

How gliders work.

Using currents of air to generate lift.

It collides with air molecules creating frictional force,

known as drag.

-You built this? -Our only prototype.

-And it worked? -60%.

Reach?

Twenty miles, depending on conditions.

-The frame? -Aluminium.

Stainless steel for cables.

-Wings? -Polyester.

No shortage of that here.

Maybe there is such a thing as serendipity.

It’s your aerodynamic knowledge I’m after. Nothing else, clear?

Taken as read.

You a tit or a bum man?

Me, I’m partial to both.

Your next contact?

Tomorrow night.

Cooking her dinner.

So it’s the night you lay down for your country once again.

Everyone loves a new car. But what’s under the hood is what counts.

An orgasm is a mechanical response,

no more to do with intimacy than a sneeze.

Let your guard down, you risk exposure.

I won’t let that happen.

It's not my first rodeo.

You get too close for comfort, risk this mission,

You’ll be back over that Wall so fast your head will spin.

Consider yourself warned. There won’t be another.

Anyone home?

Next: 200 meters women’s freestyle.

This is it.

There she is.

Can’t you make an effort for her sake?

Not this way, sir...

-She’s doing it! -Klara. Go! Go!

What time does she need?!

Under 2:08.

First place, Cora Müller. Time: 2:02.

Second place, Klara Weber. Time: 2:03

If you’re there, Emil, pick up?

I know things didn’t go well.

Your step mother? She doesn't mean it...

She’s not used to kids your age.

She needs time to adjust.

I’ll talk to her... She'll come round.

Try to see it from her point of view.

You can’t be there alone, Emil.

Come home, please.

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

Hello, Dad.

All good?

It is now.

Are you allowed to bunk off like this?

I didn’t ask.

Have you ever had doubts about what we’re trying to achieve here?

That socialism is the only way?

The other way is capitalism.

Devoid of compassion, equality and...

You know all this.

Intelligence methods...

East or West, no hands are clean.

We fight fire with fire.

By any means.

Think of it like...

Sand in your hands. It’s all you hold dear, you believe in.

Open your fingers, you let doubt in

the sand trickles out.

Your hands are empty.

You're left with nothing.

Is that a digital one?

Get this...

It even lights up.

Have it, a gift.

No, people will ask questions.

I prefer my old one.

Those digital ones only show the time that’s gone.

Not the time you have left.

I should go.

Lars?

You know how proud I am of you?

Take care.

So you’re a cook too.

My secret talent.

So keeping secrets is a talent?

The bomb exploded by the barracks' entrance...

incurring casualties but no fatalities.

The D.A.'s office said it had the marks of the Baader Meinhof Group.

The Barracks were evacuated minutes before the blast

after a passerby raised the alarm.

There's more where that came from.

Thanks.

You’re somewhere else tonight.

Not here, with me.

I saw a TV report on The Red Army Faction.

People were asked if they agreed with their aims. A quarter said yes.

You can agree with a cause without agreeing with its methods.

If that creates the repressive state they want to destroy?

They want to escalate conflict between the state and those opposed.

Risky game.

Your granny?

-The one in the armchair? -A neighbour from home.

Lighting experiment.

The prints didn't come out well.

And these?

My parents' anniversary, last year.

Didn’t you say your mother was dead?

My father remarried when I was ten.

She’s my stepmother.

You might meet them soon,

they’re threatening to visit.

What brought this on?

No reason.

Love you.

Love you too.

...President Walter Scheel handing the 1974 Championship Team Captain

Franz Beckenbauer the FIFA Trophy....

Subtitles: Peter Lohner