1 00:00:43,110 --> 00:00:46,480 Our holiday home, Summer 1978 2 00:00:47,350 --> 00:00:51,020 Look here. Here into the camera. 3 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:56,780 Hands off! 4 00:01:00,740 --> 00:01:03,740 Alex, hold on! - Dad, help me! 5 00:02:28,870 --> 00:02:32,380 Slowly, cautiously, almost gently... 6 00:02:32,420 --> 00:02:37,960 the giant colossus... is placed on the launch site. 7 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,840 Here on the launch site the result of the great... 8 00:02:41,890 --> 00:02:45,850 community work is demonstrated. If you want an example to emphasize the famous word: 9 00:02:45,890 --> 00:02:47,720 everyone supplies quality to everyone... - There he is! 10 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,020 everyone supplies quality to everyone... - There he is! 11 00:02:50,020 --> 00:02:52,900 ... here it can be seen in perfection. 12 00:02:54,810 --> 00:02:59,150 I report: I am ready for the flight with spaceship SOJUS 31... 13 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,320 as a member of the international crew. 14 00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:06,740 On August 26, 1978, we had reached international standing. 15 00:03:08,290 --> 00:03:14,080 Sigmund J�hn, citizen of the GDR, was the first German who ever went into space. 16 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,910 However, on this day our family went really up in smoke. 17 00:03:16,910 --> 00:03:18,830 This is your husband's third stay in a capitalistic country. 18 00:03:18,830 --> 00:03:20,830 This is your husband's third stay in a capitalistic country. 19 00:03:20,870 --> 00:03:23,870 He stands in for his boss, professor Klinger. 20 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,880 Do you know of any contacts in the West your husband might have?. - No. 21 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,550 Mrs Kerner, how would you describe the state of your marriage? 22 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,810 Has your husband ever talked to you about escape from the Republic? 23 00:03:37,850 --> 00:03:41,730 Mrs Kerner... Has he talked to you about that? 24 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,860 Allow me to present the Central Committee of the communist party... 25 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:52,740 Get lost! Leave me alone! 26 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,240 While Sigmund J�hn bravely represented the GDR in the depths of space, 27 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,200 my procreator let a class enemy in a capitalistic country... 28 00:04:02,250 --> 00:04:05,580 screw his brains out. He never came back. 29 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:05,870 screw his brains out. He never came back. 30 00:04:08,460 --> 00:04:12,460 My mother became so sad, that she stopped talking. 31 00:04:12,510 --> 00:04:17,090 She just didn't talk anymore. Not to us, not to others. 32 00:04:24,850 --> 00:04:29,440 Mum, please come back. It's so boring at Mrs. Sch�fer's. 33 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,240 Mum, I love you. 34 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,790 The Sandman excellently adapted to the conditions in space. 35 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,840 But the biggest surprise was that he became very well acquainted... 36 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,760 ...with Mascha. 37 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,640 We even had a cosmic marriage on board. 38 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,010 We even had a cosmic marriage on board. 39 00:05:02,010 --> 00:05:07,310 In a few minutes, the sandman and Mascha will come back to Earth. 40 00:05:07,310 --> 00:05:12,570 I hope it was relayed, so that you could see it clearly. 41 00:05:13,650 --> 00:05:17,820 Mother came back after 8 weeks. It was as if she had been transformed. 42 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:20,870 Surprise! - My sweeties! 43 00:05:26,330 --> 00:05:29,330 My Alex. My little cosmonaut. 44 00:05:49,470 --> 00:05:50,550 (Caption) Pioneer Park, Spring 1979 - We never talked about father again. 45 00:05:50,550 --> 00:05:52,890 (Caption) Pioneer Park, Spring 1979 - We never talked about father again. 46 00:05:52,890 --> 00:05:58,640 From this moment on, my mother got married to our socialist Fatherland. 47 00:06:02,310 --> 00:06:04,820 Our home... 48 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:08,860 is not only the towns and villages... 49 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:12,860 As this relation was not a sexual one, there was a lot of vigour and energy left... 50 00:06:12,950 --> 00:06:16,830 for us kids and the socialist daily routine. 51 00:06:16,870 --> 00:06:22,330 ... is the grass on the sward, the corn on the field and the birds... 52 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:23,630 in the air and the animals on the ground... 53 00:06:23,630 --> 00:06:26,000 in the air and the animals on the ground... 54 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,840 My mother became promoter of the progress of society. 55 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,180 A passionate activist for the simple needs of the people 56 00:06:34,180 --> 00:06:35,600 and against the small injustices of life. - Input. 57 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,140 and against the small injustices of life. - Input. 58 00:06:37,140 --> 00:06:38,470 and against the small injustices of life. - Input. 59 00:06:38,470 --> 00:06:41,850 Concerning: Gaudily colourful... 60 00:06:41,850 --> 00:06:44,730 maternity dresses. Full-stop. 61 00:06:49,110 --> 00:06:53,820 And now a report on the solemn honouring... - This is it! 62 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:54,660 Blue- and and white-collar workers, scientists and joint farmers, 63 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:57,700 Blue- and and white-collar workers, scientists and joint farmers, 64 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,540 artists and veteran workers came to Berlin today, 65 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:06,330 to receive the highest honourings of our country in the Council of State. 66 00:07:06,330 --> 00:07:07,040 to receive the highest honourings of our country. 67 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:09,880 That's you, Mum! 68 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,920 ... and recognition of outstanding merits during the building up... 69 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:18,180 and development of the socialist social order. 70 00:07:18,220 --> 00:07:22,180 On the eve of the national holiday... 71 00:07:22,270 --> 00:07:26,230 the CC of the SUG traditionally rewards men and women of merit. 72 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,780 After a long, untiring training it was time. I, Alex Kerner, 73 00:07:31,780 --> 00:07:36,070 was the second German to go to space. Deeper and further than any man before. 74 00:07:36,070 --> 00:07:38,950 Rocket launched! 75 00:07:39,870 --> 00:07:44,290 I imaged how I would explore the riddles of the cosmos for the good of humanity, 76 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:48,290 how I would look down to our planet and how I would proudly wave to my mother. 77 00:07:48,290 --> 00:07:50,000 how I would look down to our planet and how I would proudly wave to my mother. 78 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,420 Rocket launched! 79 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:14,520 10 years later - October 7, 1989. 80 00:08:15,020 --> 00:08:17,980 Test, one, two... 81 00:08:18,310 --> 00:08:20,770 The GDR had its 40th anniversary. 82 00:08:20,860 --> 00:08:24,820 I had a day off with the PGH TV workshop "Adolf Hennecke"... 83 00:08:24,860 --> 00:08:29,450 and felt as if I was on the climax of my male personal magnetism. 84 00:08:29,450 --> 00:08:30,780 and felt as if I was on the climax of my male personal magnetism. 85 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:41,630 Left, two, three! 86 00:08:41,630 --> 00:08:45,670 Time smelt of change, while an oversized rifle association... 87 00:08:45,670 --> 00:08:50,970 had its last performance in front of our house. 88 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:04,900 Alex! 89 00:09:06,860 --> 00:09:08,440 What? 90 00:09:08,820 --> 00:09:10,860 Alex, there's a lass out there. Should I send her away? 91 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:13,030 Alex, there's a lass out there. Should I send her away? 92 00:09:13,030 --> 00:09:15,910 Who is she? - No idea. 93 00:09:15,910 --> 00:09:18,790 But she makes a good impression. 94 00:09:21,830 --> 00:09:25,290 Have you slept in your clothes again? 95 00:09:25,340 --> 00:09:27,800 Where's the visitor? 96 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,800 The visitor's name is Paula... and it's a date, as agreed. Here you are. 97 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,720 Oh no! - Oh yes, little brother. 98 00:09:35,010 --> 00:09:39,220 Can't your ex-boyfriend take care of her? - He's on standby duty today. 99 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,660 We stopped at: ...but a woman of a certain age... 100 00:09:57,660 --> 00:09:59,490 We stopped at: ...but a woman of a certain age... 101 00:10:00,910 --> 00:10:04,920 ... can't and won't wear the panties, that are offered. 102 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,590 Fullstop. Even in the GDR, there are not only young princesses on ice and... 103 00:10:09,630 --> 00:10:13,630 exquisitly slim comrades. Full-stop. - That's good. 104 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,220 You're not downstairs? It's already started. - Impossible to overhear! 105 00:10:15,220 --> 00:10:17,850 You're not downstairs? It's already started. - Impossible to overhear! 106 00:10:17,850 --> 00:10:21,680 Well hurry up then. It could be the last time with these members. 107 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:25,020 Where's Paula? - Yeah, where is she? Sleeping again? 108 00:10:25,020 --> 00:10:26,940 Maybe I'll see your mother on TV. - In the palace? 109 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:29,480 Maybe I'll see your mother on TV. - In the palace? 110 00:10:30,230 --> 00:10:33,240 You'll have to look for her with a magnifying glass. 111 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:39,280 I don't really know if I'll go there. All of the party's bigwigs are there. 112 00:10:39,330 --> 00:10:44,240 I don't know anyone. Although... I'd like to see Gorbatschow at close range this once. 113 00:10:45,820 --> 00:10:49,780 There they are celebrating themselves, all the old bastards. 114 00:10:49,830 --> 00:10:53,870 Well you don't have to watch. - Mum, don't you notice what's happening there? 115 00:10:53,910 --> 00:10:56,920 And you, what do you want? Do a bunk? 116 00:10:57,710 --> 00:11:02,300 Nothing will change if they all go away. Let's go on. 117 00:11:03,130 --> 00:11:07,760 It cannot be possible, that the stouter... 118 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,810 ...workers and farmer's wifes... are punished by the fashion combinates... 119 00:11:11,850 --> 00:11:15,770 ...after the 40th year of the existence of our Republic! 120 00:11:15,810 --> 00:11:18,690 With socalist salutations... 121 00:11:18,810 --> 00:11:21,440 Hanna Sch�fer. 122 00:11:29,570 --> 00:11:33,660 In the evening of October 7, 1989 several hundred people united... 123 00:11:33,660 --> 00:11:37,500 for an evening walk, to promote... 124 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:41,340 the idea of walking without borders. 125 00:11:41,340 --> 00:11:44,800 Freedom of the press! Freedom of the press! 126 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,200 Cough! Cough hard! 127 00:12:10,910 --> 00:12:12,910 Everything alright? 128 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,120 You alright? - Thank you! 129 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,430 There're even more Greens. 130 00:12:33,260 --> 00:12:35,260 Alright already! 131 00:12:37,810 --> 00:12:40,690 Form a chain! 132 00:12:40,810 --> 00:12:44,020 No violence! No violence! 133 00:12:46,570 --> 00:12:51,150 You might make it if you take the subway. 134 00:13:02,210 --> 00:13:04,250 What's your name? 135 00:13:04,290 --> 00:13:05,880 La... 136 00:13:43,820 --> 00:13:46,240 Stop it! 137 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,910 Watch out! 138 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:10,510 That's my mum lying there! - Stand still! - My mum's lying there! 139 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:26,900 Let me go, you asshole! That's my mu...... 140 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,390 Alexander Kerner? - Yes? 141 00:15:04,230 --> 00:15:06,190 Your mother. 142 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,030 What about mother? 143 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,870 What is it? 144 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,080 Mum had a heart attack. 145 00:16:10,210 --> 00:16:16,170 Unfortunately, the resuscitation attempts were carried out very late. Your mother's in a coma. 146 00:16:19,420 --> 00:16:23,380 When can we talk to her? - Alex, Mum's in a coma! 147 00:16:24,470 --> 00:16:28,470 Mr. Kerner, we don't know yet, whether or not your mother will ever wake up again. 148 00:16:59,590 --> 00:17:02,460 Can you hear me, Mum? 149 00:17:03,590 --> 00:17:06,050 You've got to wake up! 150 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:10,100 But mother was fast asleep. In her deep, neverending sleep... 151 00:17:10,180 --> 00:17:14,140 she circled like a satellite around the events happening... 152 00:17:14,180 --> 00:17:19,400 on our little planet in our even smaller Republic. 153 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,490 The 9th Convention agreed to Honecker's request, to relieve him of his duties... 154 00:17:25,490 --> 00:17:30,280 because of health problems and thanked him for his political life's work. 155 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:31,700 Congratulations! 156 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:33,660 Her sleep obscured the retirement of the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker, 157 00:17:33,660 --> 00:17:35,960 Her sleep obscured the retirement of the esteemed comrade Erich Honecker, 158 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,670 General Secretary of the CC of the SUG and Chairman of the GDR's council of state. 159 00:17:44,380 --> 00:17:48,390 (Reporter) Berlin. This evening the Wall fell. 160 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,760 (German National Anthem) Unity and Justice and Liberty... 161 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,850 (German National Anthem) Unity and Justice and Liberty... 162 00:17:52,850 --> 00:17:58,190 Mother slept through a classical concert at the City Hall of Sch�neberg. 163 00:17:58,190 --> 00:18:02,940 And the start of a gigantic and unique waste collection. 164 00:18:02,940 --> 00:18:03,480 And the start of a gigantic and unique waste collection. 165 00:18:07,850 --> 00:18:10,980 Open the gateway! 166 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:14,440 Stasi begone! Stasi begone! 167 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,320 Mother kept on sleeping. Deeply and firmly. 168 00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:22,580 She missed my first trip into the West, 169 00:18:22,780 --> 00:18:27,040 and how some comrades conscientiously protected us workers and peasants. 170 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:28,830 and how some comrades conscientiously protected us workers and peasants. 171 00:18:28,830 --> 00:18:32,670 Of course she also missed my first cultural discoveries 172 00:18:32,670 --> 00:18:35,550 in a new country. 173 00:18:37,010 --> 00:18:38,920 Excuse me, excuse me. 174 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:39,760 Excuse me, excuse me. 175 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,520 Mothers deep sleep didn't allow her to participate in the first free polling. 176 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,440 Helmut! Helmut! Helmut! 177 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,730 She missed how Ariane gave up her study of economic theory... 178 00:18:54,730 --> 00:18:57,610 Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King. 179 00:18:57,780 --> 00:19:01,740 ... and made her first practical experience with the circulation of money. 180 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:06,740 The sleep saved her the moving-in of Ariane's new boyfriend. Rainer, class enemy and barbecue man. 181 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:09,830 The furniture from the bedroom is going to the basement. 182 00:19:09,830 --> 00:19:12,500 The furniture from the bedroom is going to the basement. 183 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:16,340 She missed the increasing Westernization of our 79-square-metre apartment... 184 00:19:16,340 --> 00:19:20,670 The old rubbish with the red dot is going to the bulk waste, okay? 185 00:19:20,670 --> 00:19:21,170 The old rubbish with the red dot is going to the bulk waste, okay? 186 00:19:24,010 --> 00:19:29,810 ... and Rainer's enthusiasm for the oriental customs and way of life. 187 00:19:32,810 --> 00:19:36,730 The big hormanal ecstasy that I experienced watching 188 00:19:36,770 --> 00:19:40,780 a few beautiful legs, didn't reach into her night. 189 00:19:49,950 --> 00:19:51,750 Shit! 190 00:19:58,130 --> 00:20:01,760 What're you doing there? - I... the infusion... 191 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,970 And not even the first day of Nurse Lara exchange angel from the sovjet union, 192 00:20:06,010 --> 00:20:09,140 penetrated her black dreams. 193 00:20:12,020 --> 00:20:14,890 There you are again. - Hello. 194 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:22,190 I was worried about you. - They've put me in clink. 195 00:20:34,990 --> 00:20:39,780 Mother overslept the triumph of the capitalism. - Relief! 196 00:20:47,370 --> 00:20:51,380 And the coordination of my hospital visits. 197 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,200 Do you know what I noticed? When she's in a good mood, 198 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:23,540 she's carrying her hair loosely. When she's in a bad mood, she puts them up. 199 00:21:23,580 --> 00:21:27,580 And during the doctor's round, she chews on her fingernails. 200 00:21:30,170 --> 00:21:34,750 Don't you think she's got a beautiful smile? 201 00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:39,010 Her sleep ignored, how heroes of work became unemployed. 202 00:21:39,010 --> 00:21:41,680 Her sleep ignored, how heroes of work became unemployed. 203 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,560 The PGH TV workshop "Adolf Hennecke" was winded up. 204 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,850 I was the last one and I switched off the light. 205 00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:54,230 Then there was the reprise. As a member of the quick-witted East-West-Team, I applied the reunification very early. 206 00:21:54,270 --> 00:21:58,240 Satellite dishes blossomed in our landscape. 207 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,740 Denis Domaschke? 208 00:22:00,780 --> 00:22:03,780 Domaschke. Denis Domaschke. 209 00:22:06,660 --> 00:22:09,540 Alexander Kerner? - Here. 210 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:11,960 Well, come on. Don't be shy. 211 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:12,750 Well, come on. Don't be shy. 212 00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:14,380 Hi. 213 00:22:15,170 --> 00:22:18,050 And get along, guys. 214 00:22:18,590 --> 00:22:21,180 Hi. - Hello. 215 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,390 Knut Vogel? 216 00:22:32,770 --> 00:22:36,730 Hello, Mum. Doctor Wagner said we should talk to you. 217 00:22:36,770 --> 00:22:40,740 And if I can't be there in person, I thought it might work like this too. 218 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:44,740 It's 5 o' clock now. Most of the doctors are gone 219 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:48,740 and you've finally got some peace. Nurse Lara, who's washed you, 220 00:22:48,790 --> 00:22:52,750 should be gone too. If you could see her you'd surely wake up. 221 00:22:52,790 --> 00:22:57,710 Ariane sends you her regards, she thinks the idea with the tape is nonsense. Well, you know her. 222 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,720 She's just in the room taking care of Paula who's getting her teeths and is screaming all the time. 223 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,710 Mother overslept my unstoppable progress with Lara. 224 00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:11,720 Our first romantic rendez-vous followed 4 early shifts and 35 late shifts. 225 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,320 It's loud here! 226 00:23:52,170 --> 00:23:56,130 Our Russian teacher came from Minsk and weighed a ton. 227 00:23:56,180 --> 00:24:00,140 And that's all you know about Russian women? 228 00:24:06,020 --> 00:24:09,980 The wind of change blew into the ruins of our Republic. 229 00:24:10,020 --> 00:24:13,990 Summer came and Berlin was the most beautiful place on Earth. 230 00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:17,950 We felt like being in the center of the world. 231 00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:22,450 Where finally something moved. And we moved with it. 232 00:24:22,490 --> 00:24:26,370 It's too bad she doesn't realize any of this. 233 00:24:26,750 --> 00:24:30,710 Well, maybe it's better that way. Everything she believed in 234 00:24:30,750 --> 00:24:33,710 has dissolved into air in a few months. Just like that. 235 00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:36,630 And your dad? - He was a Doctor. 236 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:42,470 He escaped into the West. We haven't heard anything from him again. 237 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,350 The future was in our hands, uncertain and promising. 238 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,560 Good afternoon. We're X TV and we just wanted to... 239 00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:43,190 Hello, do you need a satellite dish? 240 00:25:43,230 --> 00:25:45,770 No money? 241 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:47,860 Good afternoon! 242 00:25:48,150 --> 00:25:51,150 Do you like football? Then we've got something for you. 243 00:25:51,740 --> 00:25:54,620 Good afternoon. We're X TV and... 244 00:25:54,990 --> 00:25:58,620 We're X TV! Are you interested in a satellite dish? 245 00:25:58,660 --> 00:26:02,710 This is Vietnam 1, there's Vietnam 2 and back there's the Viatnamese sport channel. 246 00:26:02,750 --> 00:26:04,380 Alright! 247 00:26:09,210 --> 00:26:13,090 To the World Cup! - To the future! - To us! 248 00:26:13,470 --> 00:26:15,260 Comrade! 249 00:26:24,230 --> 00:26:28,110 At the moment this is just running on the side. 250 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:33,990 And later... I'll do real feature films. 251 00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:40,240 Same label of course. 252 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,660 Watch this, I'll just show you something. 253 00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:43,330 Watch this, I'll just show you something. 254 00:26:45,540 --> 00:26:49,130 That's what I'm working on at the moment. Watch this! 255 00:26:50,750 --> 00:26:54,340 Don't look yet. Don't look yet, wait... 256 00:26:55,630 --> 00:26:58,220 And... now! 257 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:16,450 Recognized it? 258 00:27:28,250 --> 00:27:30,040 Now! 259 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,220 That's the famous cut from 2001, the one with the bone. 260 00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:41,260 The cake represents the spaceship. 261 00:27:45,850 --> 00:27:48,810 Got it now? Yes? - Ingenious. 262 00:28:00,230 --> 00:28:02,230 Ingenious. 263 00:28:06,740 --> 00:28:08,360 Alright, everybody laugh. 264 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,990 Alright, everybody laugh. 265 00:28:09,990 --> 00:28:14,790 At the beginning of June 1990, the borders of our GDR were worthless. 266 00:28:19,250 --> 00:28:23,750 Mother kept on sleeping. But I remembered the old words of the comrades: 267 00:28:23,790 --> 00:28:27,760 "We solve problems by making headway" and I acted. 268 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,710 Mum? 269 00:29:05,090 --> 00:29:06,880 Mum! 270 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,420 Can you hear me? 271 00:29:17,470 --> 00:29:21,430 Your mother's awakening is a wonder. But she might not be the same person she used to be. 272 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,980 What do you mean? 273 00:29:24,020 --> 00:29:28,070 There have been some cases in which the patients didn't recognize their own children: amnesia. 274 00:29:28,110 --> 00:29:30,690 Loss of memory. 275 00:29:31,150 --> 00:29:33,110 Sorry. 276 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,700 Mental confusion. Blending of long and short-term memory... 277 00:29:37,740 --> 00:29:41,700 Taste and smell irritations, delayed perception. We don't know, 278 00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:47,170 how badly the brain was damaged. There are a lot of uncertain possibilities. 279 00:29:47,210 --> 00:29:53,010 I'm sorry to have to say this, but mother is still in great danger. 280 00:29:53,050 --> 00:29:58,680 I'm afraid I can't give you much hope that she'll survive the next few weeks. 281 00:30:06,230 --> 00:30:08,020 Well... 282 00:30:09,730 --> 00:30:13,490 Can we take... her home with us? 283 00:30:13,530 --> 00:30:17,240 Out of the question. She is in very good hands here. 284 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,700 It's also simpler for you. She can't take another heart attack. 285 00:30:21,740 --> 00:30:25,750 You have to keep your mother away from any excitement, even any danger of excitement. 286 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,080 And I mean any form of excitement, Mr. Kerner! 287 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,700 Any excitement. 288 00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:36,620 It's life-threatening. 289 00:30:37,210 --> 00:30:38,710 And this? 290 00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:40,670 And this? 291 00:30:40,670 --> 00:30:43,590 Isn't this a reason to get upset? 292 00:30:43,590 --> 00:30:47,890 My mother doesn't know anything about the Fall of the Wall. She'll find out about that here immediately. 293 00:30:51,390 --> 00:30:51,720 Your granddaughter. 294 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,140 Your granddaughter. 295 00:30:54,140 --> 00:30:56,520 Mummy. 296 00:31:01,310 --> 00:31:03,730 What's happened? - You collapsed. 297 00:31:03,730 --> 00:31:04,360 What's happened? - You collapsed. 298 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,860 8 months ago. 299 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,950 8... months ago? 300 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,160 I can't... remember. 301 00:31:17,330 --> 00:31:21,920 That's normal. It will come back to you. You just have to have patience. 302 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,840 And what... what happened? 303 00:31:27,050 --> 00:31:30,050 Well, that was... - It was October. 304 00:31:30,130 --> 00:31:33,560 I think you wanted to go shopping. 305 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,680 And... there was a big queue in front of the store. And it was so hot, 306 00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:41,310 you just collapsed. - In October? 307 00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:46,110 It was a really hot October. Back then. 308 00:31:46,980 --> 00:31:48,570 Yes. 309 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,990 And then? 310 00:31:51,740 --> 00:31:54,620 You were in a coma, Mum. 311 00:31:59,210 --> 00:32:02,080 I want to go home. 312 00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:05,170 That I promise you. 313 00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:08,760 We want to celebrate your birthday. As every year. 314 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,220 We want to celebrate your birthday. As every year. 315 00:32:09,670 --> 00:32:13,180 Alex, that's complete madness. - We don't leave her alone, we promised her. 316 00:32:13,220 --> 00:32:17,180 Mum is fatally ill. It's better for her here. They've got the equipment. 317 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,690 Just this once, be realistic. - No, you be realistic. 318 00:32:21,730 --> 00:32:25,860 What happens when she doesn't have a single room anymore? Or when someone lets the cat out of the bag? 319 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:30,150 She'll hear what is happening outside in here. She won't take it. 320 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:35,700 Alright, all of this rubbish has to come out. 321 00:32:37,450 --> 00:32:41,460 Are mum's curtains still in the basement - You can't be serious. 322 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:44,370 They're rawlplugged. 323 00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:47,880 Oh great! - Guess it'll have to be re-plastered. 324 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,340 Oh great! - Guess it'll have to be re-plastered. 325 00:32:49,340 --> 00:32:52,670 Can you please tell me what he's doing? - What do you think I'm doing? 326 00:32:52,670 --> 00:32:56,510 What should I think? - What should he think? - That you have to make way. 327 00:32:56,510 --> 00:32:59,880 Or should we put Mum in the basement? - Excuse me, I've paying the rent for this flat for 5 months! 328 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:00,670 Or should we put Mum in the basement? - Excuse me, I've paying the rent for this flat for 5 months! 329 00:33:00,710 --> 00:33:04,680 Generous of you, Rainer! - For the whole apartment! 47,80 German Mark! In the West that's not even enough for a telephone bill! 330 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,680 And in the East you have to wait 10 years to get a telephone connection! - Can't you just...? 331 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,680 Mum has to find the room in the same condition she left it in. The doctor said 332 00:33:12,730 --> 00:33:16,690 she has to stay in bad okay? So it's only about this one room. 333 00:33:16,730 --> 00:33:21,360 And when she's better, we'll see what we'll do. - You didn't get what the doctor said. Mum will probably... 334 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,410 That's what you said 3 months ago, when you wanted to switch off the machines. 335 00:33:25,450 --> 00:33:30,030 That was a different situation, you can't compare this! - What do you want to tell her then, Ariane? 336 00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:35,080 That you've given up your studies, because you're selling Hamburgers now? 337 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:41,090 "Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King." 338 00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:54,600 8th floor?. - Yeah. 339 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,480 Elevator, hm? - Broken. - Shit. 340 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,900 You can say that again. 341 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:34,180 My life changed drastically. 342 00:34:34,180 --> 00:34:36,850 My life changed drastically. 343 00:34:36,850 --> 00:34:40,690 And the day we wanted to take mum home was ever drawing nearer, 344 00:34:40,690 --> 00:34:44,020 relentlessly like a big Russian tank. 345 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,940 What're you doing sniffling in my cupboard? - Not in your cupboard. That's from the old clothes collection. 346 00:34:45,940 --> 00:34:48,320 What're you doing sniffling in my cupboard? - Not in your cupboard. That's from the old clothes collection. 347 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,490 And how do you look? It would be nice if you would think a little for a change. 348 00:34:53,530 --> 00:34:56,830 Look at this. This garbage is what we used to wear. 349 00:35:00,710 --> 00:35:03,290 Sign here. 350 00:35:03,340 --> 00:35:07,300 The physiotherapist is coming 3 times a week. Have you got any more questions? 351 00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:12,300 Your mother is going at her own responsibility. You know how I think about this. 352 00:35:12,340 --> 00:35:15,310 Where is the previous Doctor, by the way? 353 00:35:15,350 --> 00:35:19,350 Doctor Wagner, he went to D�sseldorf. - I understand. And you? 354 00:35:20,190 --> 00:35:24,190 When do you run away? And you want to lecture me about responsibility. 355 00:35:28,850 --> 00:35:31,850 Please lie down a second. 356 00:35:32,690 --> 00:35:36,320 Why? - Please. Just lie down. 357 00:35:43,490 --> 00:35:49,160 If there's another cardiac arrest: short, strong thumps on the chest. 358 00:35:50,710 --> 00:35:54,670 Careful! She mustn't wake up. - Alright, boss! 359 00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:59,050 Ariane and I'll set up a schedule. And there's the physiotherapest. 360 00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:02,130 There's always someone with her. It'll work. 361 00:36:02,170 --> 00:36:06,640 Most GDR citizens already exchanged their savings cashlessly. 362 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,680 There are only 2 weeks left. You should hurry. Because as Gorbatschow once said: 363 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,640 He who is late... - Excuse me?. 364 00:36:13,690 --> 00:36:16,650 will be punished all his life. - I can't hear it anymore. - Excuse me! 365 00:36:16,690 --> 00:36:20,650 Could you tune down the radio please? My mother needs rest. 366 00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:23,280 Alright, boss. 367 00:36:27,370 --> 00:36:32,580 Don't you want to introduce us? - Oh yes, of course. This is Lara. 368 00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:34,620 Hello, Lara. 369 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,600 Could you let me past, please? 370 00:36:54,430 --> 00:36:57,020 Hello, Christiane! 371 00:36:57,850 --> 00:37:00,730 Alex! What is it? 372 00:37:01,190 --> 00:37:03,190 Hello? Alex! 373 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,500 Nothing's changed in here. 374 00:37:18,710 --> 00:37:21,670 What should have changed? 375 00:37:21,710 --> 00:37:25,670 Oh, if you're bored, you can listen to cassettes. 376 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:28,680 I'm afraid the radio receiver is broken. 377 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,850 But I'll repair that. - Alex? 378 00:37:36,770 --> 00:37:40,770 It's good to know you're not alone. 379 00:37:43,110 --> 00:37:45,990 When your father... 380 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,120 When he was suddenly gone... 381 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,240 I didn't think I'd make it. 382 00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:04,740 I never told you that... 383 00:38:08,750 --> 00:38:12,630 I thought about laying hands upon myself. 384 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:20,680 But you visited every day. 385 00:38:20,970 --> 00:38:24,970 And you talked about school and Sigmund J�hn. 386 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:27,980 You heard that? 387 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,400 I'm sorry to cause you so much work. 388 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:39,280 I can't even use the toilet by myself. - Mum. 389 00:38:39,690 --> 00:38:42,570 That doesn't matter. 390 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:46,700 The important thing is for you to get well. 391 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,700 I'll try hard. 392 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,040 You have to rest now. 393 00:38:55,170 --> 00:38:59,170 I'll just go to the shop, but Ariane is still there. 394 00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:02,800 Oh, Alex...? 395 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,220 I'm craving for Spreewood gherkins. Can you fetch me some? 396 00:39:07,260 --> 00:39:09,680 No problem, Mum. 397 00:39:10,850 --> 00:39:13,730 That's what I thought. 398 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:21,440 At the end of June 1990 the shops of our socialist Fatherland were emptied. 399 00:39:22,150 --> 00:39:26,160 Real money was coming in from the country behind the Wall. 400 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:33,660 While most citizens queued in long lines in front of the Republic banks with their usual patience... 401 00:39:33,710 --> 00:39:36,420 we were still frantically looking for mother's bankbook. 402 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:39,710 we were still frantically looking for mother's bankbook. 403 00:39:50,470 --> 00:39:55,060 Yearned for by everyone, the German Mark flooded our little community. 404 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,440 Halleluja, Halleluja... 405 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,480 Halleluja, German Mark! 406 00:40:03,150 --> 00:40:06,110 (Song) Such a day, so wonderful... 407 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,780 And the money was exchanged 2 to 1. Germany won 1:0! 408 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:15,160 Unstoppable shot! Germany is one-nil up by Lothar Matth�us! 409 00:40:29,130 --> 00:40:32,960 Mocca Fix? - Haven't got that anymore. Filinchen Crispbread? - Not for sale anymore. 410 00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:37,050 Spreewood gherkins? - Goodness, where do you live, boy? 411 00:40:37,090 --> 00:40:41,430 We've got the German Mark now. And there you come asking for Mocca Fix and Filinchen? 412 00:40:41,470 --> 00:40:46,640 Over night, our grey store was transformed into a colourful product paradise. 413 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:47,140 Over night, our store was transformed into a colourful product paradise. 414 00:40:47,690 --> 00:40:50,650 And I became the king as a customer. 415 00:40:50,690 --> 00:40:53,320 They're from the Netherlands. 416 00:40:57,780 --> 00:41:00,370 Good afternoon, Mr. Ganske. 417 00:41:08,670 --> 00:41:13,290 That's how far they've driven us already... that we have to go fishing in the garbage. 418 00:41:14,170 --> 00:41:17,630 Mister Ganske, have you still got Spreewood gherkins? 419 00:41:17,670 --> 00:41:20,550 What? - Spreewood gherkins! 420 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,850 I'm sorry, young man. I'm unemployed myself. 421 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,480 An empty glass would do, too. 422 00:41:53,670 --> 00:41:57,050 I wanted to introduce Rainer to Mum today. 423 00:41:57,090 --> 00:42:00,970 Later. We don't want to demand to much of her. 424 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,560 Perhaps you're right. 425 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,230 Yes. 426 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,480 I'm afraid there was a supply shortage for Spreewood gherkins. 427 00:42:16,690 --> 00:42:19,650 It's alright. These are fine too. 428 00:42:23,820 --> 00:42:27,780 Listen, you really don't have to take care of me all the time. 429 00:42:27,830 --> 00:42:30,700 It's awkward for me. - Mum. 430 00:42:30,830 --> 00:42:33,710 No, really. Maybe... 431 00:42:34,170 --> 00:42:39,050 ... you could put the TV next to the bed. Then I'll manage by my own. 432 00:42:39,090 --> 00:42:43,130 Watching TV still is too tiring for you. - But why? Why shouldn't I... 433 00:42:43,170 --> 00:42:48,850 be able to watch TV? - We'll ask the Doctor. 434 00:42:50,460 --> 00:42:54,050 Mum, we have to talk to you about something. 435 00:42:54,130 --> 00:42:57,010 It's like this... 436 00:42:57,140 --> 00:43:00,100 We wanted to ask you if... 437 00:43:00,140 --> 00:43:04,730 We need your authorization to access your bank account. - What is it? 438 00:43:06,150 --> 00:43:09,020 Do you need money? - No. No. 439 00:43:10,650 --> 00:43:14,610 It's just that you can't go walk the bank by yourself anymore. 440 00:43:14,650 --> 00:43:17,660 And it would simply be better if... 441 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,120 you sign this. 442 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,750 Yes, and... 443 00:43:23,790 --> 00:43:26,670 maybe now would be best. 444 00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:34,260 But there's no hurry is there? 445 00:43:37,510 --> 00:43:42,520 You're keeping something from me? Has something happened? Are you in debt? 446 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,560 Please trust us, it's important! 447 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:51,770 Before I let you have all my money, I have got a right to know what it's for don't I? 448 00:43:51,820 --> 00:43:53,610 All right. 449 00:43:53,820 --> 00:43:57,820 It was supposed to be a surprise but... 450 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,870 We received a notification. 451 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,830 From Zwickau. We can fetch our "Trabant" (GDR car). 452 00:44:04,830 --> 00:44:06,460 From Zwickau. We can fetch our "Trabant" (GDR car). 453 00:44:06,460 --> 00:44:08,870 After only 3 years? 454 00:44:08,870 --> 00:44:12,710 And for that we need the money that you've saved. 455 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:20,300 You don't think... I got my money at the bank? 456 00:44:23,060 --> 00:44:25,930 I've hidden it. 457 00:44:26,890 --> 00:44:29,520 And where? - Where? 458 00:44:36,030 --> 00:44:38,900 I forgot. 459 00:44:41,070 --> 00:44:45,080 I've totally forgotten, it's all gone. - Mum, just think. 460 00:44:54,790 --> 00:44:58,800 Father is coming home late today, don't you think? 461 00:45:22,770 --> 00:45:24,560 Mum... 462 00:45:26,150 --> 00:45:30,740 That's alright. Soon you'll be better again. 463 00:45:32,910 --> 00:45:36,910 We'll celebrate your birthday. As every year. 464 00:45:38,290 --> 00:45:42,870 With the house community. We have always celebrated it. 465 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:51,630 This is the First German Television with the news. 466 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,550 Comrade Ganske watches West-TV? 467 00:46:01,810 --> 00:46:05,690 Comrade Ganske fell in love. During a vacation in Hungary. 468 00:46:05,730 --> 00:46:08,730 With a pensioner from... Munich. 469 00:46:09,650 --> 00:46:12,650 Since then his love for the party has suffered. 470 00:46:12,820 --> 00:46:14,610 Oh. - Well... 471 00:46:16,910 --> 00:46:18,870 Are you finished? 472 00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:27,080 I'm sorry I'm late again. - There it is. Even with a balcony. 473 00:46:27,130 --> 00:46:29,210 Since some citizens didn't even return from their vacation in Hungary, 474 00:46:29,210 --> 00:46:30,920 Since some citizens didn't even return from their vacation in Hungary, 475 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:35,260 the apartment market in the Capital eased considerably. 476 00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:39,100 There were deserted apartments everywhere, which we only had to enter. 477 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:41,010 The guy moved to the West last year. A colleague gave me the hint. 478 00:46:41,010 --> 00:46:43,100 The guy moved to the West last year. A colleague gave me the hint. 479 00:47:38,150 --> 00:47:41,570 Get a load of that! - Get a load of that - It's working! - Tempo-beans! 480 00:47:43,410 --> 00:47:47,240 Globus green peas! That can't be true. 481 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:51,570 Mocca Fix Gold! I've been looking for that all the time! 482 00:48:00,670 --> 00:48:02,670 Can I have that? 483 00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:37,450 I have to go. 484 00:48:40,210 --> 00:48:42,790 Sleep on... 485 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,690 Morning, Mum. 486 00:49:08,730 --> 00:49:11,320 Morning, Alex. 487 00:49:12,650 --> 00:49:15,620 Are you in a hurry? - I have to go to work. 488 00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:18,580 Alex, please remember the TV. - Let's talk about that later. 489 00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:19,870 Alex, please remember the TV. - Let's talk about that later. 490 00:49:19,870 --> 00:49:25,620 Oh and about my birthday. Invite Klapprath and perhaps a few pupils. 491 00:49:25,620 --> 00:49:29,500 As if the fucking gherkins weren't enough trouble already. Now she wants to watch TV. 492 00:49:29,630 --> 00:49:33,590 What should I do? - Yeah, Houston. We got a problem. 493 00:49:35,630 --> 00:49:39,640 Yeah, and now? - I thought you might have an idea. No, I meant the picture. 494 00:49:40,430 --> 00:49:42,220 Oh. 495 00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:49,060 Now? - Nope. 496 00:49:49,110 --> 00:49:54,070 It didn't work very long. - Semi-finale! I'll just go over to the Pollnicks. 497 00:49:54,110 --> 00:49:56,700 Then go already. 498 00:49:57,860 --> 00:50:01,580 Excuse me. Are those gherkins from the Spreewood? 499 00:50:01,660 --> 00:50:04,080 Nope, from the Netherlands. 500 00:50:06,790 --> 00:50:09,790 Just show her something old. - What do you mean? 501 00:50:10,630 --> 00:50:13,590 Old East-TV stuff on video tape. 502 00:50:13,630 --> 00:50:17,080 News from last year? She'll notice for sure. 503 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,590 Ah, I don't think so. It was always the same rubbish. - Where should I get the videos from? 504 00:50:21,630 --> 00:50:25,050 I haven't even got a recorder. - Bad enough. 505 00:50:25,130 --> 00:50:26,760 What's the score? 506 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:27,220 What's the score? 507 00:50:27,260 --> 00:50:31,890 Beckenbauer, Rudi V�ller... You don't want to see it... 508 00:50:33,970 --> 00:50:36,850 Germany made it into the finale! 509 00:50:39,730 --> 00:50:43,690 While the world time clock at the Alexander Square rushed towards mother's birthday, 510 00:50:43,690 --> 00:50:47,650 a tiny round ball united the social development... 511 00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:51,660 of the split nation and let things, that belonged together, grow together. 512 00:50:51,700 --> 00:50:55,950 I slaved away like a Hero of Labour to resurrect the GDR in every detail 513 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,000 in mother's room until this day. 514 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,050 Have the cross-word puzzles already been solved? - Untouched like a virgin. 515 00:51:04,090 --> 00:51:06,960 Great. I'll take them all. 516 00:51:07,970 --> 00:51:10,840 Oh and these ones too. 517 00:51:11,890 --> 00:51:17,480 They laid my daughter off too. All of a sudden it was: "Thank you, and goodbye." 518 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,810 And for that we worked for 40 years, oh leave me alone...... They'll even drop the TV ballet. 519 00:51:21,810 --> 00:51:23,730 Don't you do anything apart from watching TV? 520 00:51:23,730 --> 00:51:24,610 Don't you do anything apart from watching TV? 521 00:51:24,650 --> 00:51:28,610 To get back to my mother. The problem is that 522 00:51:28,610 --> 00:51:32,620 she doesn't know about the Fall of the Wall - Enviable. 523 00:51:33,450 --> 00:51:39,370 And it's her birthday next week. She would really be happy about a visit. 524 00:51:40,620 --> 00:51:45,090 Have you really got it now? I don't want to hear one false word. 525 00:51:45,130 --> 00:51:48,090 And our 20 Marks? - The work comes first. 526 00:51:48,130 --> 00:51:52,590 The first guests were invited. Others still had to be persuaded. 527 00:51:52,630 --> 00:51:56,600 A lot of people of the Polytechnical Secondary School "Werner Seelenbinder"... 528 00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,600 had withdrawn to their private lives. Including Doctor Klapprath. 529 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:01,850 Once headmaster and outstanding teacher of the People. 530 00:52:01,850 --> 00:52:04,020 Once headmaster and outstanding teacher of the People. 531 00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:07,400 We were all valuable people. 532 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,780 Isn't that right, Alex? 533 00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:13,610 I admired your mother. She was an outstanding educator. 534 00:52:13,610 --> 00:52:16,120 I admired your mother. She was an outstanding educator. 535 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,040 And an excellent human being. 536 00:52:19,290 --> 00:52:22,250 That's why she was neutralized. 537 00:52:24,460 --> 00:52:28,090 Some comrades in the collective thought her to be too... 538 00:52:29,130 --> 00:52:31,710 idealistic. 539 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,510 Ever since your father... 540 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,720 Her idealism was well-respected, but... 541 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,590 in the daily school routine, it... can become problematic sometimes. 542 00:52:46,430 --> 00:52:49,430 And then you simply gave her the boot. 543 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,230 You still owe her something. - Yes. 544 00:53:04,030 --> 00:53:07,870 You're a Dispatcher. Can you remember that? - Dispatcher? In the East? 545 00:53:07,870 --> 00:53:12,160 Yes, of course in the East. You organize the purchasing of a Mitropa-Restaurant. 546 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:16,040 Write this down: School Education EOS Juri Gagarin. 547 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:16,420 Write this down: School Education EOS Juri Gagarin. 548 00:53:16,620 --> 00:53:20,590 And you were Group Council Chairman with the Pioneers. - Group Council... what? 549 00:53:20,630 --> 00:53:23,590 Group Council Chairman. - That's enough. 550 00:53:23,630 --> 00:53:29,550 I won't use those plastic diapers anymore. That's going too far. 551 00:53:30,350 --> 00:53:33,350 Got it? Yes, Group Council Chairman. 552 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,560 Here you are, 30 broadcasts of "Current Camera", 10 broadcasts of "Black Channel"... 553 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,570 6 broadcasts "Colourful Boiler" and 4 broadcasts of "A Day in the West". It's all copied. 554 00:53:41,610 --> 00:53:45,570 Sponsored by the country's picture library and a very charming Denis. 555 00:53:45,610 --> 00:53:47,200 I hope that'll work. 556 00:53:50,950 --> 00:53:56,620 What are you doing crawling on the ground? - That's the cable for the antenna so you can watch TV? 557 00:54:06,090 --> 00:54:10,550 We've got the World Cup. Truly a gift. There is no better time to 558 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,600 supply satellite dishes to the East. 559 00:54:14,430 --> 00:54:17,390 Okay? Got it? We come to phase 3... 560 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,400 What was that? - No idea. Interferences, happens from time to time. 561 00:54:27,610 --> 00:54:31,570 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the "Current Camera". 562 00:54:31,610 --> 00:54:37,040 Hard provocation against the border. Protests in the Chancellor's office in the FRG (West Germany). 563 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:41,040 Chip-Power GDR. The foreign press acknowledges achievements... 564 00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:45,040 Things are running outside and I feel so useless in here. 565 00:54:45,090 --> 00:54:49,050 Can't you put a note on the house community's pin board? 566 00:54:49,090 --> 00:54:53,970 Whoever's got any problems can come to me. I can write inputs from bed. 567 00:54:54,010 --> 00:54:58,020 I don't know. You shouldn't exert yourself. 568 00:55:00,430 --> 00:55:04,020 Morning, Alex. Is it time already? 569 00:55:12,770 --> 00:55:15,770 You want a swig? You want a swig? - Oh holy shit! 570 00:55:18,610 --> 00:55:21,490 Shit. Shit, yes? Shit! 571 00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:24,820 Goodness, goddamn shit! 572 00:55:39,340 --> 00:55:41,920 I feel sick. 573 00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:48,720 While many loudly thought of themself being the World Cup holders of tomorrow, 574 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:51,060 While many loudly thought of themself being the World Cup holders of tomorrow, 575 00:55:51,060 --> 00:55:54,390 sounds from the past came out of mother's bedroom. 576 00:55:54,390 --> 00:55:59,190 Our home is not only the towns... 577 00:55:59,190 --> 00:56:00,650 and villages... 578 00:56:01,610 --> 00:56:06,570 Our home is also all the trees in the forest... 579 00:56:06,620 --> 00:56:09,240 Our home... 580 00:56:09,620 --> 00:56:14,370 is the grass on the sward, the corn on the field... 581 00:56:15,420 --> 00:56:18,080 and the birds... 582 00:56:18,330 --> 00:56:23,380 in the air and the animals on the ground... 583 00:56:24,090 --> 00:56:29,390 and the fishes in the river are the home... 584 00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,220 And we love the... 585 00:56:39,150 --> 00:56:42,780 That was wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, children. 586 00:56:43,610 --> 00:56:46,610 You learned that from me, didn't you? 587 00:56:48,820 --> 00:56:50,410 Yes. 588 00:56:54,330 --> 00:56:56,620 Dear Christiane! 589 00:56:56,660 --> 00:56:59,630 We are here... today... here, 590 00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:03,630 because it's your birthday. And... I would like to wish... 591 00:57:05,010 --> 00:57:08,880 you all the best in the name of the party direction. 592 00:57:10,590 --> 00:57:12,390 And... 593 00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:15,520 the basket. 594 00:57:17,770 --> 00:57:19,560 For you. 595 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,440 That's kind of you. Thank you. 596 00:57:25,070 --> 00:57:27,150 Klapprath. 597 00:57:27,190 --> 00:57:30,780 Rosenthaler Kadarka... Mocca Fix Gold... 598 00:57:32,410 --> 00:57:34,990 Globus green peas. 599 00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,080 The colleagues and... the comrades... 600 00:57:41,450 --> 00:57:44,410 of the POS "Werner Seelenbinder"... they... 601 00:57:45,580 --> 00:57:49,580 would like to thank you in particular for all the years, 602 00:57:50,420 --> 00:57:53,380 Christiane, that you... were... 603 00:57:55,420 --> 00:57:58,300 a... good colleague... 604 00:57:59,010 --> 00:58:01,890 and... a dear comrade... 605 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,180 uhm... 606 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,850 And anyway, I wish you all the best for your birthday and remain the same person you are... 607 00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:13,900 Christiane. 608 00:58:21,860 --> 00:58:24,740 Dear comrade Kerner... 609 00:58:25,830 --> 00:58:28,700 All the best... 610 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,750 and... good health... 611 00:58:32,330 --> 00:58:35,920 and that everything will be as it used to be again. 612 00:58:39,460 --> 00:58:42,050 Lara, come here. 613 00:58:46,390 --> 00:58:48,970 This is Lara. 614 00:58:49,140 --> 00:58:52,140 An exchange student from the Soviet Union. 615 00:58:53,060 --> 00:58:56,060 Her dad is a teacher for the deaf and dumb. 616 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,990 Don't marry him too early. - Mum. 617 00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:05,280 Even though the thing with the flat will work out earlier then. 618 00:59:06,660 --> 00:59:10,540 My Alex can be a real block-head sometimes. 619 00:59:12,660 --> 00:59:15,250 And Rainer... 620 00:59:15,420 --> 00:59:19,040 that's my Ariane's new boyfriend. 621 00:59:19,590 --> 00:59:22,460 He... he is a... 622 00:59:23,090 --> 00:59:26,680 Dispatcher. - Right, I'm a Dispatcher. 623 00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,270 I used to be with them myself... All the best from the heart... Pioneers! 624 00:59:32,310 --> 00:59:36,270 I used to be with the Free German Pioneers... 625 00:59:36,310 --> 00:59:38,560 Thank you, Rainer. 626 00:59:38,610 --> 00:59:41,190 As a Group... um... 627 00:59:41,610 --> 00:59:43,400 Cha... 628 00:59:43,610 --> 00:59:46,570 Group Chairman... back then... - Thank you! 629 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,870 Be ready, be ready! - Thank you, Rainer! 630 00:59:55,580 --> 00:59:59,580 Yes, Mum. Another year is over. What's changed? 631 01:00:00,670 --> 01:00:05,260 Not much really. Paula got her teeth and a new dad. 632 01:00:06,380 --> 01:00:08,340 And me... yes. 633 01:00:08,380 --> 01:00:12,630 Unfortunately, we cannot go over to the Caf� Moskow to drink to your health, 634 01:00:12,630 --> 01:00:16,470 but we're all together. And that's the most important thing. 635 01:00:16,470 --> 01:00:20,300 We didn't always make it easy for you, but you were always there for us. 636 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:24,560 And, by any rate, I can't think of a better family than ours. 637 01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:29,020 And that's what I wanted to thank you for. Mum, you're the best mother in the world. 638 01:00:29,060 --> 01:00:32,020 Alex? - And we all love you. 639 01:00:32,060 --> 01:00:34,650 Alex?. - What's the matter? 640 01:00:35,070 --> 01:00:37,650 What's that? 641 01:00:40,070 --> 01:00:43,030 That's... - Yes, what's the meaning of that? 642 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,040 I don't know what the comrades are doing there again... A fata morgana. 643 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:52,250 That's from the West. - It's a mirage. 644 01:00:55,380 --> 01:01:00,680 It will have been approved somehow. - Please calm down, Mum! 645 01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,720 There's an explanation for everything. Right... 646 01:01:05,390 --> 01:01:08,390 Boys, please sing something, will you? 647 01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,690 Lara! Wait a moment, I... Lara?. 648 01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:17,030 "Build up, build up". 649 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:20,990 What's the matter all of a sudden? 650 01:01:21,030 --> 01:01:25,950 Build up. For a better future... 651 01:01:26,370 --> 01:01:28,910 we build up our home... 652 01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:34,210 I'm sorry for your mother. What you're doing is too scary for me. 653 01:01:36,590 --> 01:01:40,550 And what is this nonsense about my father being a teacher for the deaf and dumb. 654 01:01:40,590 --> 01:01:44,640 He was a simple cook, you know that. - But she rejoiced in that. 655 01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:49,850 What should I've told her? That he's dead? In her state? 656 01:01:52,890 --> 01:01:56,860 You mean to say, when you're lying already, it doesn't make any difference anyway. 657 01:01:56,900 --> 01:02:00,530 Cheers for her, cheers for her... 658 01:02:00,570 --> 01:02:02,360 Lara! 659 01:02:03,070 --> 01:02:06,660 Cheers for her, cheers for her... 660 01:02:06,990 --> 01:02:09,580 three cheers for her! 661 01:02:10,370 --> 01:02:12,960 Cheers, cheers, cheers! 662 01:02:23,340 --> 01:02:25,260 Just a little further away. 663 01:02:25,260 --> 01:02:26,260 Just a little further away. 664 01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,930 Just a little more.. 665 01:02:28,970 --> 01:02:32,930 Watch out, will you? We're filming here! - Can I see your authorization? 666 01:02:32,980 --> 01:02:36,560 Didn't he inform you? - Me? Who? 667 01:02:37,550 --> 01:02:40,510 Oh, what was his name? - Something with "M". 668 01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,560 I'll just go and ask around. Until then, you don't film anything! 669 01:02:46,150 --> 01:02:49,730 Got the logo? - Yes. Sharpness on me?- Yes. 670 01:02:53,150 --> 01:02:57,110 We're waiting for the evening sun. - Don't overdo it, the guy will be back soon. 671 01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:01,080 Just you wait. With the evening sun it'll look brill. 672 01:03:01,580 --> 01:03:05,540 When I stared at the clouds on that day, I realized that the truth 673 01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:09,540 was just a doubtful matter, that I could adapt to mother's 674 01:03:09,590 --> 01:03:10,500 familiar surroundings. 675 01:03:10,500 --> 01:03:12,300 familiar surroundings. 676 01:03:13,710 --> 01:03:17,550 I only had to study the language of "Current Camera"... 677 01:03:17,550 --> 01:03:21,430 and spur on Denis' ambition as a film director. 678 01:03:23,430 --> 01:03:27,940 Today G�nther Mittag, secretary for Economy in the CC of the SUD, 679 01:03:27,980 --> 01:03:32,320 visited the Coca Cola group in West Berlin. The reason for the comrade's visit are... 680 01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:36,990 details of the completed trade agreement between Coca Cola... 681 01:03:37,070 --> 01:03:40,030 and the VEB Drink Collective Combine Leipzig. 682 01:03:40,570 --> 01:03:45,080 Security officers of West Berlin hinder the work of the GDR television. 683 01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:49,080 Surely, the capitalistic press censors find the loss the mighty 684 01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,500 Coca Cola group has suffered against the VEB Drink Collective Combine Leipzig... 685 01:03:52,590 --> 01:03:56,550 in the patent procedure too embarrassing... Please let the GDR television 686 01:03:56,590 --> 01:04:00,510 work undisturbed! - That's it, I'm calling the police! 687 01:04:00,550 --> 01:04:04,510 A testimonial of international scientists now finally confirmed 688 01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,520 to the Collective Combine, that the original Coca Cola flavour 689 01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:13,610 was developed in the 50s in laboratories of the GDR. Back to the studio. 690 01:04:13,650 --> 01:04:17,240 Coca Cola is a socialist drink? 691 01:04:17,570 --> 01:04:20,990 I thought, Cola existed before the war. 692 01:04:21,030 --> 01:04:24,990 Don't you understand, Mum? The West ripped us off all these years! 693 01:04:25,030 --> 01:04:29,000 Until the end of August 593 deaths by drugs were registered. 694 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:33,040 60% more than in the year before. - Now I remember! 695 01:04:35,130 --> 01:04:38,130 What? - Where I hid the money. 696 01:04:39,590 --> 01:04:42,510 In the living room. In the small chest of drawers. 697 01:04:42,550 --> 01:04:46,010 In the left drawer under the wax paper. 698 01:04:46,060 --> 01:04:49,520 The old rubbish with the red dot is going to the bulk waste. 699 01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,560 How could I forget? 700 01:04:58,070 --> 01:05:01,030 Hey, here I am! - Oh, hello! 701 01:05:04,410 --> 01:05:05,980 And? 702 01:05:07,900 --> 01:05:11,320 Has she swallowed it? - Yes, of course. - Really? 703 01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:15,370 Has she really swallowed it? - I'm telling you. 704 01:05:18,580 --> 01:05:22,540 They've driven us this far! - Good evening, Mister Ganske. 705 01:05:23,540 --> 01:05:26,500 They betrayed us and sold us out! 706 01:05:26,540 --> 01:05:30,010 The lack of sharpness didn't irritate her? - No. 707 01:05:30,050 --> 01:05:34,010 And for that we worked 40 years... - We could rebuild a studio. 708 01:05:34,050 --> 01:05:38,010 We would have different possibilites with a blue box. 709 01:05:38,180 --> 01:05:40,770 What... what are you doing there? 710 01:05:56,910 --> 01:06:00,290 And? What should we do with it? - Exchange it, of course. 711 01:06:01,700 --> 01:06:04,120 I'm sorry, but the deadline expired 2 days ago. 712 01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:05,870 I'm sorry, but the deadline expired 2 days ago. 713 01:06:06,540 --> 01:06:10,500 But it's a special case. - We've only just found it today. 714 01:06:10,550 --> 01:06:14,510 It's even okay for us, if you exchange 1 to 4 or 1 to 5... 715 01:06:14,550 --> 01:06:19,010 I'm afraid there is no prolongation. And we wouldn't have exchanged cash anyway. 716 01:06:19,050 --> 01:06:22,010 That can't be! - It has to be possible! 717 01:06:22,060 --> 01:06:25,980 I'm sure you heard me. Time's up! - Your time is up soon, you bastard! 718 01:06:26,020 --> 01:06:29,980 These are 30,000 East Marks! That was our money, for 40 damned years! 719 01:06:30,020 --> 01:06:33,980 Now you Western fuck want to tell me, this isn't worth anything? 720 01:06:34,030 --> 01:06:37,610 Please leave our premises now. 721 01:06:38,030 --> 01:06:41,030 Keep your hands off! And what are you all gawking at? 722 01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:44,450 It used to be your money, too! 723 01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,830 Keep your hands off! You assholes! 724 01:06:56,090 --> 01:06:58,970 Are you going mad or what? 725 01:06:59,550 --> 01:07:03,510 I felt like a Commander of a submarine in the Northsea-Fleet, 726 01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,520 whose battle-hardened steel skin had sprung a leak. 727 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:11,520 Everytime I closed a leak, another one opened. 728 01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:15,530 Ariane denied being my brother in arms, the class enemy raised his Cola-flag 729 01:07:15,570 --> 01:07:20,740 and a fresh wind from the West blew mother's East money around my ears. 730 01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:26,160 What're you laughing about? - Yell. 731 01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:29,250 Why? - You have to vent some air. 732 01:07:29,540 --> 01:07:32,540 Open up your valves. Just yell! 733 01:08:00,020 --> 01:08:03,980 In Summer 1990, the German national team exceeded the plan... 734 01:08:04,020 --> 01:08:07,860 and became World Cup holder. 735 01:08:08,070 --> 01:08:10,990 And mother kept on getting better. 736 01:08:11,030 --> 01:08:11,400 The pullover marked "Size 48" has the width of a "Size 54" 737 01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:15,160 The pullover marked "Size 48" has the width of a "Size 54" 738 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:18,490 and the length of a "Size 38". Full-stop. 739 01:08:18,490 --> 01:08:23,290 I don't know how the employees of Milena come to these measurements. 740 01:08:23,540 --> 01:08:29,210 In the Capital there are no people who are so small and square. Full-stop. 741 01:08:31,130 --> 01:08:34,010 Christiane, that's good. 742 01:08:35,010 --> 01:08:39,640 If it's our fault... If it's... our fault... 743 01:08:41,140 --> 01:08:47,110 that we cannot accommodate the Central Plan with our sizes, comma... 744 01:08:47,730 --> 01:08:51,360 we would like to apologize for that. Full stop. 745 01:08:51,530 --> 01:08:55,490 In this case... we shall endeavour to become, comma... 746 01:08:55,530 --> 01:08:59,540 in the future, smaller and squarer. Full stop. 747 01:09:01,540 --> 01:09:04,410 With socialist salutations. 748 01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,920 Hanna Sch�fer. 749 01:09:11,550 --> 01:09:13,670 Hello, Mrs. Sch�fer. 750 01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:19,140 Oh Alex. It's so nice to talk to your mother. It feels just like living in the past. 751 01:09:19,180 --> 01:09:23,140 A little changes here and there and I'll send it to the OTTO mail-order company. 752 01:09:26,020 --> 01:09:28,150 Our home is also all the trees in the forest... 753 01:09:28,150 --> 01:09:30,020 Our home is also all the trees in the forest... 754 01:09:30,020 --> 01:09:32,440 Our home... 755 01:09:36,740 --> 01:09:40,120 I've got some nice visitors. That's Frank and Christian... 756 01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,990 of my former class. - Hello. 757 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:46,920 Hello. Mrs. Kerner has to rest now, alright? 758 01:09:47,830 --> 01:09:50,710 Bye. - Alex, why? 759 01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,800 Now scram! - And the 20 Marks? - What 20 Marks? 760 01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:00,800 Sascha said, we'd get 20 Marks for that! 761 01:10:01,010 --> 01:10:04,960 Hello, Mr. Mehlert. - Hello, Alex. Problems with the toaster? 762 01:10:05,010 --> 01:10:09,300 My mother will be happy, just go ahead. And you get out of here! 763 01:10:09,340 --> 01:10:14,520 And tell your mates, I don't want to see a Pioneer here ever again. - Alright, boss. 764 01:10:20,020 --> 01:10:22,980 Have you gone nuts? 765 01:10:23,020 --> 01:10:26,990 You can't just let the boys in here! 766 01:10:27,030 --> 01:10:29,990 But why? She was pleased, wasn't she? 767 01:10:30,030 --> 01:10:35,950 You can't do anything right with you Easties! Having something to complain about is what matters to you most! 768 01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,960 You're just like your mother and her stupid GDR-inputs. 769 01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:41,960 My mother doesn't grumble! She's trying to change 770 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,960 the conditions of the society step by step through constructive criticism. - Sure. 771 01:10:46,010 --> 01:10:48,970 And you were never interested in that! - Nope. 772 01:10:49,010 --> 01:10:53,470 Haven't you noticed? We're in the socialist veteran's club. 773 01:10:53,550 --> 01:10:57,020 Good evening. Why don't you take admission fees? 774 01:10:57,060 --> 01:10:59,060 Yeah, let's charge admission fees! 775 01:10:59,100 --> 01:11:03,480 You be quiet. He's bought a Trabbi (GDR car). - Really? 776 01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,320 An estate car. 777 01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:09,490 That can't be happening. Paula will get a defect, if this goes on much longer. - Oh come on! 778 01:11:09,530 --> 01:11:12,990 20 years in the GDR didn't harm our health, did they? 779 01:11:13,030 --> 01:11:15,990 I've really got my doubts about you. 780 01:11:16,540 --> 01:11:19,120 Shit. Shit! 781 01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,670 Well done. Get a cloth. 782 01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,520 What is it? Nosebleeds again. 783 01:11:50,530 --> 01:11:54,490 I know it's a little stressful at the moment I'd also prefer, 784 01:11:54,530 --> 01:11:59,740 if we didn't have to... - I saw dad... earlier. 785 01:12:00,950 --> 01:12:03,540 Where?. - At work. 786 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:08,040 I recognized his voice immediately. 787 01:12:08,170 --> 01:12:10,670 What did he say? 788 01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:12,880 3 cheeseburgers and 2 portions of chips with mayonnaise, please. 789 01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:14,630 3 cheeseburgers and 2 portions of chips with mayonnaise, please. 790 01:12:18,970 --> 01:12:22,350 Um, 3 cheeseburgers and 2 portions of chips with mayonnaise! 791 01:12:36,850 --> 01:12:39,730 And... what does he look like? 792 01:12:42,110 --> 01:12:46,740 He drives a Volvo estate car and got glasses with a golden rim. 793 01:12:48,530 --> 01:12:51,410 What did you tell him? 794 01:12:52,330 --> 01:12:56,540 Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King. 795 01:12:59,630 --> 01:13:03,630 Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King. 796 01:13:27,900 --> 01:13:32,280 My father lived somewhere in this City. I saw his image in my mind. 797 01:13:32,330 --> 01:13:38,290 A fat guy who stuffed himself with cheeseburgers and chips all day. 798 01:13:45,670 --> 01:13:49,130 He lived in his world and I lived in mine. 799 01:13:49,180 --> 01:13:53,140 He didn't have anything to do with me and I didn't have anything to do with him. 800 01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,860 Hold still or it won't work. 801 01:14:04,940 --> 01:14:07,900 Will it take much longer? 802 01:14:10,990 --> 01:14:14,990 'cause I have to be home in 2 hours at the latest. 803 01:14:15,530 --> 01:14:20,710 You always have to be somewhere in 2 hours. It's getting boring. 804 01:14:21,540 --> 01:14:25,460 Oh great. I got a sick mother, a demanding job... 805 01:14:25,500 --> 01:14:29,470 and a miffed girlfriend. - I've got my exams in 2 days. 806 01:14:29,510 --> 01:14:33,510 It's second nature to you. This little bit of putting a plaster on. 807 01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:36,680 Then I can stop learning, can't I? 808 01:14:38,220 --> 01:14:42,230 I was well-meant. I believe in you. 809 01:14:42,900 --> 01:14:45,860 Lara, stop this shit, please! 810 01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:48,900 You have to tell your mother! - What? 811 01:14:48,940 --> 01:14:53,950 You have to tell your mother! - Not because of me, but because of her! 812 01:14:57,740 --> 01:15:00,360 Lara! - What? 813 01:15:00,990 --> 01:15:03,570 Shit! Lara! 814 01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:21,340 The life in our little country became ever faster. 815 01:15:21,340 --> 01:15:26,640 Somehow we were all just like atoms in a big particle accelerator. 816 01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,010 But away from all the frantic pace of the new time there was a place of quiet, 817 01:15:29,010 --> 01:15:30,470 But away from all the frantic pace of the new time there was a place of quiet, 818 01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:36,480 silence and leisureliness, where I could finally have a lie-in. 819 01:15:38,020 --> 01:15:43,990 Well, Paula. Alex didn't use to be so tired when he came home from work. 820 01:15:51,370 --> 01:15:54,330 Our Paula's learning to walk, Alex! 821 01:15:59,790 --> 01:16:01,590 There! There! 822 01:16:20,770 --> 01:16:22,400 There! 823 01:16:27,030 --> 01:16:30,030 See? I can do it, too. 824 01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:42,170 Paula! See? 825 01:16:45,010 --> 01:16:49,590 My little Paula. Come to your Granny. Come, come. 826 01:16:53,890 --> 01:16:57,890 Now we'll show Alex, what we can do, okay? 827 01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,310 Right... 828 01:17:06,610 --> 01:17:10,570 Now let's see just how far your Granny can walk. 829 01:18:01,820 --> 01:18:04,410 Hi! - Hi! - Good afternoon. 830 01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:20,460 Young man, can I just sit down for a moment here please? 831 01:18:20,510 --> 01:18:23,090 Of course. 832 01:18:30,890 --> 01:18:34,810 You're not from here, are you? - Nope, from Wuppertal. 833 01:18:34,850 --> 01:18:36,860 From the West? 834 01:19:43,090 --> 01:19:45,010 Mum? 835 01:20:43,470 --> 01:20:46,470 Mum, what are you doing? Come on. - Mum! 836 01:20:47,470 --> 01:20:53,150 What is it with you? You can't just get up! Shit. 837 01:20:56,980 --> 01:20:59,860 What's actually happening here? 838 01:21:03,490 --> 01:21:07,490 Central Committee of the Socialist... Unity Party of... 839 01:21:08,750 --> 01:21:11,330 Germany. 840 01:21:12,290 --> 01:21:15,170 Sound is in order. - Right. 841 01:21:15,500 --> 01:21:18,920 Right. I'm ready. - Camera running. 842 01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:20,970 3, 2, 1... 843 01:21:22,930 --> 01:21:24,840 Berlin. 844 01:21:33,980 --> 01:21:35,940 Still running. 845 01:21:35,980 --> 01:21:37,770 Berlin. 846 01:21:37,980 --> 01:21:42,820 In a historic special session of the Central Committee of the Social Unity Party of Germany... 847 01:21:42,900 --> 01:21:47,660 the General Secretary of the SUG's CC and Chairman of the GDR's Council of State, 848 01:21:47,740 --> 01:21:51,830 Comrade Erich Honecker, in a great matter of humanitarian politeness, 849 01:21:51,870 --> 01:21:58,420 consented to the entering of the country by people from the FRG who've been requesting exile at the GDR embassies in Prague and Budapest. 850 01:21:58,500 --> 01:22:00,460 In this development, Honecker sees... 851 01:22:00,500 --> 01:22:02,800 a change in the East-West-relations and promised every man and woman entering the country... 852 01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:04,680 a change in the East-West-relations and promised every man and woman entering the country... 853 01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:07,550 a welcome money of 200 East Marks. 854 01:22:07,550 --> 01:22:11,390 Unemployment, bad future prospects... 855 01:22:11,390 --> 01:22:15,230 and the increasing election victories of the neo-Nazi Republicans... 856 01:22:15,230 --> 01:22:19,440 made the unnerved FRG citizens turn their backs 857 01:22:19,480 --> 01:22:23,440 on the capitalism to try and start... 858 01:22:23,490 --> 01:22:27,060 a new life in the country of workers and farmers. 859 01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:33,360 Here they park, the new GDR citizens from the FRG. 860 01:22:33,490 --> 01:22:37,450 The entering FRG citizens were accommodated in the Berlin districts... 861 01:22:37,490 --> 01:22:41,450 "Center" und "Friedrich's Grove". The CC of the SUG... 862 01:22:41,490 --> 01:22:46,830 created the campaign "Solidarity West" because of the historic situation, 863 01:22:46,870 --> 01:22:51,420 to make sure all the new citizens receive proper living space. 864 01:22:51,460 --> 01:22:55,420 Somehow I have to admit that my game started to break free. 865 01:22:55,470 --> 01:22:59,430 Maybe the GDR I created for my mother, was the one I would have liked to have. 866 01:22:59,470 --> 01:23:03,430 Citizens who are ready to accommodate a refugee from the FRG, 867 01:23:03,470 --> 01:23:07,940 please report to their Section Plenipotentiary. 868 01:23:09,810 --> 01:23:12,690 How many are there already? 869 01:23:13,020 --> 01:23:15,900 I don't know. Ten, twenty thousand? 870 01:23:16,490 --> 01:23:20,450 Look at that. The people want to come into our country. 871 01:23:20,490 --> 01:23:24,450 Where are they all going to live? - They'll find something. 872 01:23:24,490 --> 01:23:27,460 You've heard it, they're taking care of it. 873 01:23:28,750 --> 01:23:32,750 No, children. This is our responsibility. We have to help. 874 01:23:33,460 --> 01:23:38,050 But how do you think we can? I mean, there's no room left in here. 875 01:23:39,550 --> 01:23:42,550 Our holiday home. - Our holiday home? 876 01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:48,600 We could do it up. I wanted to get out there anyway. 877 01:23:49,270 --> 01:23:55,480 Congratulations. You've done a great job. Now she wants to go to the holiday home. 878 01:23:56,940 --> 01:24:00,910 You'll have to redecorate the entire City. Why don't you start? 879 01:24:00,950 --> 01:24:04,950 But I'm telling you one thing, I won't take this any further. 880 01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:12,920 Ariane and I'll get a bigger apartment. In 4 weeks we're out of here. 881 01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,210 What? 882 01:24:15,250 --> 01:24:17,880 I'm pregnant. 883 01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:26,810 Again? Can't you be more careful? 884 01:24:28,890 --> 01:24:31,850 Don't you think Paula is enough? And Mum? 885 01:24:32,480 --> 01:24:37,730 You can't leave me alone! - Then take some refugees. 886 01:24:37,770 --> 01:24:41,780 You're so cynical. You want her to die, don't you? 887 01:24:50,870 --> 01:24:56,070 And so the unity of our little family was restored. 888 01:24:58,450 --> 01:25:01,450 That's your child. And this is the heart. 889 01:25:06,790 --> 01:25:09,380 Amazing! 890 01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:12,880 An all-German baby was on its way. And all-German contracts... 891 01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:14,260 An all-German baby was on its way. And all-German contracts... 892 01:25:14,260 --> 01:25:18,100 were signed. In Moskow, they calculated 893 01:25:18,100 --> 01:25:23,850 that 2 and 4 equals one and drank Krim Champagne to all-German brotherhood. 894 01:25:24,100 --> 01:25:29,320 In Berlin we took our first all-German trip. 895 01:25:32,440 --> 01:25:36,410 I'm not a little child anymore. Please take off the cloth. 896 01:25:36,450 --> 01:25:39,080 Don't look! 897 01:25:39,700 --> 01:25:43,700 Where are we going? - The surprise stays a surprise! 898 01:25:44,460 --> 01:25:48,420 The Trabbi (GDR car) smells so new. What colour does it have? 899 01:25:48,460 --> 01:25:53,420 You've waited 3 years, another half an hour won't make a difference. - That's right. 900 01:26:24,290 --> 01:26:26,080 Mum? 901 01:26:41,140 --> 01:26:44,510 Oh, it's beautiful. Sky-blue. 902 01:26:44,510 --> 01:26:47,390 Right, and now turn around. 903 01:26:51,100 --> 01:26:54,770 Oh my god. The garden. 904 01:26:54,770 --> 01:26:58,900 Remember the time Alex locked himself in the bathroom? 905 01:26:58,900 --> 01:27:01,780 We knocked and knocked. Not a sound. 906 01:27:01,780 --> 01:27:03,240 I climbed out of a hole and watched all the excitement from the tree. 907 01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:05,950 I climbed out of a hole and watched all the excitement from the tree. 908 01:27:05,990 --> 01:27:09,960 And I laughed so hard, I wet myself. 909 01:27:16,630 --> 01:27:21,250 What's happened in the 8 months I overslept? 910 01:27:21,290 --> 01:27:23,880 Is she asleep? - Yeah. 911 01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:31,590 You've become adults, that must be it. 912 01:27:32,340 --> 01:27:34,050 You look more and more like your father. 913 01:27:34,050 --> 01:27:35,390 You look more and more like your father. 914 01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:44,980 Mum... 915 01:27:45,190 --> 01:27:49,110 I've lied to you all this time. It's all different from what you think. 916 01:27:49,150 --> 01:27:52,150 Mum, what are you talking about? - Your father... 917 01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:01,160 Your father didn't stay in the West because of another woman. 918 01:28:01,830 --> 01:28:05,830 I lied. And I also lied about... 919 01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:12,720 not hearing anything from him again. 920 01:28:13,300 --> 01:28:16,260 He wrote letters to me... and to you. 921 01:28:17,430 --> 01:28:21,060 They're all... in the kitchen cupboard. 922 01:28:27,940 --> 01:28:32,530 They made things so hard for him. Just because he wasn't in the party. 923 01:28:32,570 --> 01:28:37,160 It was dreadful. He didn't let anyone notice. 924 01:28:38,450 --> 01:28:41,330 But I knew. 925 01:28:41,450 --> 01:28:45,460 I... knew and I couldn't help him. 926 01:28:48,250 --> 01:28:52,840 And then... there suddenly was this congress in West Berlin. 927 01:28:54,380 --> 01:28:57,970 We only had 2 days to think. 928 01:28:59,300 --> 01:29:03,140 Your father wanted to stay in the West and I... 929 01:29:03,180 --> 01:29:06,140 I was supposed to follow with you. 930 01:29:10,440 --> 01:29:13,440 Well, I couldn't do it. 931 01:29:16,570 --> 01:29:19,570 I... I was very frightened. 932 01:29:21,450 --> 01:29:25,410 You don't know, how it is. Filling in an exit permit... 933 01:29:25,450 --> 01:29:29,790 with 2 children. You can't get out immediately. You have to wait - endlessly! 934 01:29:29,830 --> 01:29:32,840 Sometimes even years. And you... 935 01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:37,880 They could have taken you away from me. Do you understand? 936 01:29:44,270 --> 01:29:47,140 Yes. 937 01:29:48,270 --> 01:29:51,220 I didn't go. 938 01:29:53,510 --> 01:29:56,980 It was the worst mistake of my life. 939 01:29:57,020 --> 01:29:59,650 I know that now. 940 01:30:00,940 --> 01:30:04,530 I lied to you. Please forgive me! 941 01:30:25,750 --> 01:30:28,630 My dear Robert... 942 01:30:30,510 --> 01:30:33,510 I thought about you so often... 943 01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:39,020 I would so much like to see you once more. 944 01:31:17,140 --> 01:31:21,140 The same evening mother's condition suddenly worsened. 945 01:32:27,740 --> 01:32:31,790 Your mother had another heart attack, just as I feared. 946 01:32:31,830 --> 01:32:35,830 At the moment, she's relatively stable. But I'm afraid... 947 01:32:37,540 --> 01:32:41,540 we have to expect the worst. I'm sorry. 948 01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,760 The doctors can be wrong. - Alex, don't lie to yourself. 949 01:32:52,810 --> 01:32:56,680 Here, I found it. He lives in Wannlake. 950 01:32:59,440 --> 01:33:05,360 I know, it's her last wish. But I couldn't bring myself to go there. 951 01:33:08,950 --> 01:33:11,820 Mum's not going to die. 952 01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,080 Bye. 953 01:33:54,580 --> 01:33:58,160 Now you can accommodate someone after all. 954 01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:03,580 Accommodate? Who? 955 01:34:03,830 --> 01:34:06,710 Someone from the West. 956 01:34:29,480 --> 01:34:32,110 You have to sleep. 957 01:34:34,820 --> 01:34:38,700 If you want you you can sleep lie down in the nurses' room. 958 01:35:16,310 --> 01:35:19,270 There he was. The idol of my youth. 959 01:35:19,730 --> 01:35:21,900 Like a conjured spirit from my childhood: Sigmund J�hn. 960 01:35:21,900 --> 01:35:24,150 Like a conjured spirit of my childhood Sigmund J�hn. 961 01:35:24,150 --> 01:35:29,410 He didn't give autographs, he didn't talk to Pioneers about the secrets of the universe, 962 01:35:29,410 --> 01:35:33,250 the freedom you have in zero gravity or the eternity of the cosmos. 963 01:35:33,410 --> 01:35:38,380 He drove a small, stinking Lada-Taxi. - Where do you want to go? 964 01:35:38,420 --> 01:35:41,380 To Wannlake. - I know what you're thinking. 965 01:35:41,420 --> 01:35:45,300 That's what many people think. But that's not who I am. 966 01:35:45,420 --> 01:35:49,390 We were flying through the night. Just like through the depths of the cosmos. 967 01:35:49,430 --> 01:35:53,390 Light-years away from the solar system, past strange galaxies... 968 01:35:53,430 --> 01:35:57,390 with unknown lifeforms, we landed in Wannlake. 969 01:35:57,690 --> 01:36:00,690 Could you wait a moment? 970 01:36:04,070 --> 01:36:06,650 I won't be long. 971 01:36:16,540 --> 01:36:19,420 Good evening. - Hello. Come in. 972 01:36:22,790 --> 01:36:26,420 Is Mr. Kerner there? - The buffet is outside. - Over there. 973 01:36:32,140 --> 01:36:34,720 Hello. 974 01:36:43,610 --> 01:36:45,190 Good evening. 975 01:36:51,410 --> 01:36:53,200 Hello! Good evening! 976 01:36:56,790 --> 01:36:58,580 Hello! 977 01:37:04,420 --> 01:37:10,170 Sandman, dear Sandman, it isn't time yet... 978 01:37:10,220 --> 01:37:14,430 We send the evening greetings... 979 01:37:14,790 --> 01:37:18,130 before all the children have to go to bed. 980 01:37:18,210 --> 01:37:19,090 You surely have time left. 981 01:37:19,090 --> 01:37:21,260 You surely have time left. 982 01:37:24,140 --> 01:37:27,470 Hello. - Hello. - Hello. 983 01:37:27,470 --> 01:37:30,850 May I watch the Sandman with you? - Only if you tell us your name. 984 01:37:30,850 --> 01:37:31,350 May I watch the Sandman with you? - Only if you tell us your name. 985 01:37:31,390 --> 01:37:33,980 Alexander. 986 01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:43,280 Look, today the sandman is an astronaut. 987 01:37:43,780 --> 01:37:46,740 Where I come from it's called cosmonaut. 988 01:37:46,780 --> 01:37:50,660 Where do you come from? - From a different country. 989 01:37:53,420 --> 01:37:56,380 Hi, you little bears. - Hello, Dad. 990 01:37:56,420 --> 01:37:59,300 Hello. How are you? 991 01:37:59,420 --> 01:38:02,050 Fine. 992 01:38:04,470 --> 01:38:07,470 So, are you also a fan of the Sandman? 993 01:38:07,550 --> 01:38:10,140 Yes, I am. 994 01:38:13,810 --> 01:38:17,810 Excuse me, do we know each other? - Yes, we do. 995 01:38:19,110 --> 01:38:22,740 Yes. I can't think of it. Please help me. 996 01:38:23,110 --> 01:38:25,700 His name's Alexander. 997 01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:34,580 Alex? 998 01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:42,840 Robert. Robert! We're all waiting for you out here. 999 01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:45,340 Robert, come out! 1000 01:38:45,380 --> 01:38:49,850 Robert, we all know that you like to hide in the bathroom on these occasions. 1001 01:38:55,810 --> 01:39:00,020 Dad, you have to give your speech. - Robert, come out here. 1002 01:39:00,060 --> 01:39:02,940 I'll be back. 1003 01:39:07,860 --> 01:39:11,870 Oh, I see him. You've kept us waiting. 1004 01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,000 Onto the stage! 1005 01:39:20,750 --> 01:39:25,090 Well, I thank you all for coming here. 1006 01:39:25,090 --> 01:39:27,470 Thank you and... 1007 01:39:29,390 --> 01:39:30,840 enjoy the evening. Thanks. 1008 01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:32,510 enjoy the evening. Thanks. 1009 01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:46,350 I'm sorry for having this party here tonight. 1010 01:39:46,390 --> 01:39:49,980 Had I known you'd come, I... 1011 01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:57,360 Strange, I've always thought you've got a swimming pool. 1012 01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:03,070 We've got a lake nearby. My god, I didn't even recognize you. 1013 01:40:09,370 --> 01:40:13,000 Now I got 2 new brothers and sisters, hm? 1014 01:40:21,380 --> 01:40:26,560 For 3 years, every day I waited for a message from you. 1015 01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:28,390 Every day. 1016 01:40:29,810 --> 01:40:33,400 It was my most fervent wish. 1017 01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:46,990 Why have you come? 1018 01:40:52,370 --> 01:40:55,250 Mum's dying. 1019 01:40:56,460 --> 01:40:59,340 She had a heart attack. 1020 01:41:00,090 --> 01:41:02,970 She wants to see you once more. 1021 01:41:18,980 --> 01:41:21,990 What was it like up there? - Up there? 1022 01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:28,780 Oh... up there. 1023 01:41:31,540 --> 01:41:34,410 It was wonderful up there. 1024 01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:38,000 Just very far away from home. 1025 01:41:44,380 --> 01:41:48,390 The Wall is no more. There's no frontier! 1026 01:41:49,220 --> 01:41:51,720 It's not that bad. It's all just one country now! 1027 01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:56,520 I don't understand a word. It's all untrue. - That's why you have to play along. 1028 01:41:57,400 --> 01:42:00,360 And why did I come back to the GDR? 1029 01:42:00,400 --> 01:42:03,990 I don't know. Just think of something! 1030 01:42:07,530 --> 01:42:10,530 No, it's absurd. I can't do that. 1031 01:42:10,580 --> 01:42:15,150 You just have to overcome it, then it'll be easy. 1032 01:42:39,390 --> 01:42:41,970 Mum. - Yes. 1033 01:42:42,390 --> 01:42:44,180 Ouch. 1034 01:43:09,620 --> 01:43:12,210 I want to get up. 1035 01:43:12,710 --> 01:43:15,300 How do I look? 1036 01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:27,140 You can go in now. 1037 01:43:29,690 --> 01:43:33,270 And please remember, not a word! - Yes, yes. 1038 01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:48,410 What did you talk about? - Is that important? 1039 01:44:03,180 --> 01:44:07,180 How long has he been in there? - More than an hour. 1040 01:44:11,390 --> 01:44:14,350 I hope he doesn't let the cat out of the bag. 1041 01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:23,070 The summer was over. I decided to end the whole sham. 1042 01:44:23,360 --> 01:44:28,120 But once more we were about to celebrate the anniversary of our socialist Fatherland. 1043 01:44:28,160 --> 01:44:32,710 But in contrast to reality... as a dignified farewell. 1044 01:44:45,750 --> 01:44:47,340 Pst! 1045 01:44:56,090 --> 01:44:59,100 Yes? Camera running. Start at 3. 1046 01:45:05,100 --> 01:45:10,020 Dear citizens of the German Democratic Republic. 1047 01:45:10,070 --> 01:45:14,030 If you've lived to see the wonder of watching our blue planet... 1048 01:45:14,070 --> 01:45:16,610 from the depths of the cosmos... 1049 01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:32,170 As mum hardly couldn't wait, we simply moved the GDR's anniversary... 1050 01:45:32,210 --> 01:45:37,380 from October 7 to October 2, 1990: The eve of the reunification. 1051 01:45:58,150 --> 01:45:59,740 And? 1052 01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:03,160 Here. My best film yet, buddy. 1053 01:46:03,370 --> 01:46:07,330 Too bad no one but your mother will ever see it. 1054 01:46:07,370 --> 01:46:11,330 Thank you, Denis. Without you, it would never... - Yeah, it's alright. Here you go. 1055 01:46:11,380 --> 01:46:14,340 Zoom off, before it gets sentimental. 1056 01:46:15,170 --> 01:46:17,300 And tell me how it was! 1057 01:46:17,380 --> 01:46:22,390 On the occasion of today's annual anniversary of the GDR, Erich Honecker resigned... 1058 01:46:22,430 --> 01:46:25,310 from all his functions. 1059 01:46:25,470 --> 01:46:27,060 What? 1060 01:46:27,180 --> 01:46:31,310 We ensure our friends in the world that the socialism... 1061 01:46:31,350 --> 01:46:35,320 (Reporter) In his speech on the ceremony for the GDR's anniversary... 1062 01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:39,320 in the Republic's palace, Erich Honecker justified his decision by saying that 1063 01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:43,320 the changes achieved in the GDR in the past few months... 1064 01:46:43,370 --> 01:46:47,330 completed his political life's work. Erich Honecker congratulated... 1065 01:46:47,370 --> 01:46:52,290 the new SED's CC General Secretary and Chairman of the GDR's council of state: 1066 01:46:52,370 --> 01:46:55,250 Sigmund J�hn. - What, J�hn? 1067 01:46:55,380 --> 01:47:00,550 In 1978, Sigmund J�hn was the first German cosmonaut in space. 1068 01:47:01,180 --> 01:47:06,350 The new head of state addressed the GDR's population in the evening. 1069 01:47:08,180 --> 01:47:14,090 Dear citizens of the German Democratic Republic. 1070 01:47:14,340 --> 01:47:18,310 If you've lived to see the wonder of watching our blue planet... 1071 01:47:18,350 --> 01:47:23,560 from the depths of the cosmos, you see things differently. 1072 01:47:24,770 --> 01:47:27,020 Up there, in the depths of space, the people's lives... 1073 01:47:27,020 --> 01:47:28,860 Up there, in the depths of space, the people's lives... 1074 01:47:28,860 --> 01:47:34,160 seem small and insignificant. You ask yourself what humanity has accomplished. 1075 01:47:34,160 --> 01:47:38,450 Which objectives did we set, which objectives did we realize? 1076 01:47:38,660 --> 01:47:41,620 Today is our country's anniversary. 1077 01:47:41,660 --> 01:47:45,290 It's a very little country, seen from the cosmos. 1078 01:47:45,330 --> 01:47:49,300 But still thousands of people came to us last year. 1079 01:47:49,340 --> 01:47:54,430 People who we looked to as enemies and who want to live here with us today. 1080 01:47:54,470 --> 01:47:59,310 We know our country is not perfect. But what we believe in, 1081 01:47:59,350 --> 01:48:03,310 inspired a lot of people in the whole world. 1082 01:48:03,350 --> 01:48:07,310 Maybe we have drifted off course from time to time. 1083 01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:11,320 But we collected ourselves. Socialism doesn't mean 1084 01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:15,780 living behind a wall. Socialism means reaching out to others, 1085 01:48:15,820 --> 01:48:20,280 and living with others. Not just to dream about a better world, 1086 01:48:20,370 --> 01:48:22,330 but to make the world a better place. 1087 01:48:22,330 --> 01:48:24,080 but making it a better world. 1088 01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:27,920 I have therefore decided to open the GDR borders. 1089 01:48:29,340 --> 01:48:33,170 Shortly after the Fall of the Wall, thousands of FRG citizens... 1090 01:48:33,420 --> 01:48:38,010 seized the opportunity to visit the GDR for the first time. 1091 01:48:42,350 --> 01:48:46,310 Many want to stay. They're looking for an alternative to... 1092 01:48:46,350 --> 01:48:51,320 the hard battle for survival in the capitalistic system. - Isn't that wonderful? 1093 01:48:51,360 --> 01:48:55,320 Not everyone wants to join in with career addiction and aggressive marketing. 1094 01:48:55,360 --> 01:48:59,370 Not everyone wants to fight his way through life. 1095 01:49:03,370 --> 01:49:07,250 (Song) Such a day, so wonderful like today... 1096 01:49:07,830 --> 01:49:11,960 These people want a different life. They realize that cars, 1097 01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:16,800 video recorders and TVs are not everything. They are ready to 1098 01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:22,510 realize a new life with nothing but good will, vigour and hope. 1099 01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:29,350 Amazing. 1100 01:50:39,330 --> 01:50:42,920 My mother survived the GDR by 3 days. 1101 01:50:43,330 --> 01:50:47,290 I guess it was the right thing, that she never did learn the truth. 1102 01:50:47,340 --> 01:50:50,210 She died happily. 1103 01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:55,680 She wished for us to scatter her ashes to the four winds. 1104 01:50:55,720 --> 01:51:01,430 That's not allowed in Germany. Not in the West and not in the East. But we didn't care. 1105 01:51:35,130 --> 01:51:39,300 Up there she is floating and maybe she is looking down at us. 1106 01:51:39,350 --> 01:51:43,310 And sees us as tiny dots on our little Earth. 1107 01:51:43,350 --> 01:51:46,310 Just like Sigmund J�hn back then. 1108 01:51:48,350 --> 01:51:54,280 The country my mother left was a country she had believed in 1109 01:51:54,650 --> 01:51:58,660 and which we kept alive until her last second. 1110 01:51:59,490 --> 01:52:03,490 A country that in fact never existed like this. 1111 01:52:05,120 --> 01:52:11,080 A country that in my memory will always be connected to my mother.