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He tries to stir up everybody, good comrades.

But he's a Nazi!

- You have Nazis here? - We have everything. Come on in.

Coma on.

Hansi, don't take a crap!

Hi there.

I stopped by, because Sascha isn't on the watchtower.

He's on a different tower.

Or on patrol duty at a different border section.

I see

- I thought maybe... - What did you think?

He was in trouble.

Come in!

Comrade...

Her aunt works in Berlin West for the Federal Print Office.

Great!

Forms, applications, passports...

Okly.

Okay, listen. You'll have an affair with her.

But you won't have any sex

because if the lady isn't satisfied by the sex

she'll end the relationship and we can't sound her out

Entry...

Plan: Recruitment of new contact.

Political Operation, Line 15.

Area of Operation: West. Student.

Material interests,i.e. debts?

Or political convictions?

Compromising circumstances a car accident, a code name.

He sometimes sleeps here. He can't stand the barracks

I wrote him a letter

That it's over between us.

I'll write him another letter, an official letter

I'll explain that our ideas are too different about society...

I once received a letter like that from a concentration camp.

From my husband.

He saved my life.

- Did your husband - No.

They shot him for high treason.

The times are different

but...it isn't easy to live with a letter like that.

He'll write you using my return address.

Be patient.

He won't survive. It's too cold.

I'm so sorry.

That's all right, dear.

That's the problem with freedom.

We can't live without it.

But for him... it means death.

I can't forget you. I kiss your lips.

Your scent...

I have to pick up my daughter.

- I don't have a daughter - But I do.

New line: "I've been transferred to a new border section.

But I always think of you. May I

invite you to dinner at the Kulturhaus? You know where.

They only have a disco on the weekend.

Otherwise it's a top restaurant.

I have leave on November 8th I have to see you again.

The landing target on my soul is still waiting for you.

Love and kisses, Sascha."

Final test.

Testing one, two...

three, four, five...

- Hi there. Hey - Hi.

- You got all dressed up for me? - My dress uniform.

I've never seen you in a dress before.

Just kidding. Don't worry.

- Your grandma... - She's the best grandma in the world.

How's college? Have you started classes yet?

Yeah, well, it's boring.

What am I studying?

Phys Ed?

- German? - To become a teacher?

- Education? - Social work.

- You can study that? - I can in the West.

What would the honorable couple like?

Honorable couple? That's funny.

Would your Highness express what he wishes?

- Steak with letscho - Letscho?

- A side dish. - I'll take the side dish.

And champagne.

- I know so little about you - Same goes for me.

What...

Where could we get to know each other better?

What's up?

What's wrong?

Nothing.

- Allergic to the carnations? - No!

Am. I can't stand 'em. I don't believe.

The "people's" vases are well protected, huh?

It's all artificial here.

That's not it. So what is it?

- Do you want me to leave? - No!

Are you in pain?

I have to tell you something and I want to be honest.

I wanted to end our relationship. I'm afraid they won't let you study if we stay together

or they might even arrest you.

I wrote you a letter.

Franzi, you shouldn't worry about me.

But I am worried.

Then your letter showed me how brave you are.

It's your decision, too.

Thank you.

- Do you know than guys? - No.

Why?

You keep looking at them.

But they aren't looking at you. That's strange.

Yeah.

The one on the left looks like a pedophiliac math teacher

who looks under girls' skirts during a test It's true!

Franzi!

The one on the right looks like a Stasi rat on vacation.

Calm on the outside, but inside bursting with vigilance.

Hold up your hands.

Is it okay now?

Oh dear! Did I save you?

I'm your guardian angel.

I'll be right back.

Where's she going, Sergeant?

- I tried. Sorry - Shut up!

Do you think you're believable when you don't talk?

- I wanted to deny it - Deny it?

Are you crazy? You have to agree with her

you idiot! I am

a Stasi pig, but on duty, not on vacation.

Always after the enemies of the state.

We're everywhere. More Stasi than enemies.

Understand?

Don't play the loyal socialist, or she'll write you off her list!

- Hi. Hey, you're... - Uschi, Sascha's friend.

- Hi,Franzi - Hi,Uschi

Hey, Sascha is different today so... uptight... and...

He always feels like shit in uniform or that he'll be recognized.

Especially here.

I hadn't heard from him since the riot.

He might have his period.

He's a virgin

' No! ' Oh Yeah!

So be careful.

Great! How?

Whirl?

- It's too late. I've gotta get back - Another time.

May I?

Hey, what's going on? Everything's blurred.

Can you look as stupid as me in this picture?

It fits

Incredible! I'll be damned! Me in the West!

I always wanted to go over and have a look!

- I'm going crazy! No! - Here tomorrow. Same time.

No, at 7 p.m. That's when I start to work.

- Promise? - Cross my pioneer heart.

If I were her, I'd hightail it over the border.

Go to my place first, Sebastian St. 86.

Then get changed and hit the town!

My spare cash is in the drawer where I keep my underwear.

- What for? - You need money to come back.

Oh shit!

- You gotta take a taxi - Yeah?

Didn't I say so? She's leaving!

I'll see you in my office tomorrow, you jerk!

Asshole!

The landing strip on my soul.

Yes, it's me!

Come on. I want you.

Come on!

I have to check and see who I am.

Okay, my name is Ursula Ziesche

born in Meissen. I'm in my first year of History at the Humboldt University.

Oranienburger St. 22, that's where I live.

- You're crazy. - Yeah. Crazy for you.

Why did she go from the toilet to the border without saying goodbye?

Don't get.

Is this supposed to be you?

You need a new photograph.

Get yourself a new passport.

Hey there!

What if Uschi gets arrested, because she doesn't really resemble you?

Or if they talk to her and hear her Saxon accent?

Then they'll be here soon.

We have to get up early.

I'm on duty at six.

Franzi, I have to tell you something.

The Stasi is blackmailing me.

That's it! None of that stuff! The cathouse is in Potsdamer St.

And if that's too expensive, then go East The girls do it for...

Stasi.

We know you're there. Open up, or you'll have to buy a new door!

Hello, may I see your passport?

May I?

Shut up!

Have a seat, please.

As you know, we have excellent spies operating in every secret service.

And they find out almost everything And by one of...

our colleagues who works for us in the Stasi we were told

that your friend Sascha is a Stasi informer.

Did you know that?

It really blows you away, doesn't it?

We'd like you to tell us what he wants to know from you.

Your friend, Sascha.

We require that you tell us everything, or else

you'll be charged with treason.

Please sign here. November 9,1989...

11-09-89. Sign here, please.

You are now under our protection.

Just report everything, and everything will be fine.

Goodbye, Ms. Schubert.

C.l.A.

oh no!

I'll be damned!

"Good morning, love. I'm at work. Please, leave before someone comes.

See you tonight. Lots of kisses, Sascha."

You must have warned her. How else can we explain

that she fled from the toilet to the West?

If you don't know...

Then? What then?

- I no longer feel safe in my country - Oh...

I know where you'd feel safe.

You'd even be safe from the Stasi.

In preventive detention!

- Where my grandpa was also detained - I have no idea.

In Buchenwald as a communist.

Proof: Since September 11th your girlfriend from the West has been

working for the CIA in West Berlin.

Our counterespionage agents risked their lives

at the CIA to find out this information.

What do you say now?

State Security, Lieutenant Colonel Haack.

You are Ms.Ziesche?

We've come to clear up a particular matter.

Would you permit us to enter?

Yeah!

Have a seat.

- So, we study History, do we? - Yeah.

We have an ID, don't we?

Yeah.

Think you.

Sascha, your boyfriend... Have you known each other long?

None of my business.

Your Sascha...

He loves somebody else.

Yes, a girl from West Berlin. An agent

from the CIA.

Your Sascha is more devoted to that woman than to our country.

He dumped his revolutionary class vigilance overboard.

Probably out of love.

And we have to find out what our rivals

are planning to do with that US whore.

But, as I see, he was able to keep Franziska a secret.

Yeah.

That's really hard. Really hard.

Not only for the sake of our republic, but also for the sake of Comrade Meier

we have to ask you, as his childhood friend...

Ursula... to work with us.

Regarding your specific case, everything that has to do with Sascha

like conversations, dates...

must be documented in this document.

Pick your own code name. Okay?

I hope we'll work well together.

Yeah.

So, what's this here?

The topic of our meeting: Disband or reform...

our Free German Youth?"

This is the first meeting this year.

- It starts in an hour - Yeah.

That's right. Stand up for what you believe in.

- Yeah - Here.

This is for you, and this is for me.

Here is my card, just in case You can reach me anytime.

Off-hours, too.

Hey, you're here after all!

What's this here?

A real erotic hit! Where'd you get these underpants?

I'll bring you a pair of mine.

How's your love life?

Franzi, the water heater's broken.

You've really got guts!

I'll be back soon. Just brought you something. Bye!

Oh shit!

Wegener, Secret Service. Can I see your ID?

Think you,

Ms. Schubert.

We were contacted by the CIA.

We are required by German law to require you to give assistance.

Here you are. It is in your own interest.

We have a few questions. We better not ask them here.

'Love,Sascha.'

Copy it. Now she's trapped, Schneider.

Our feelings are stronger than the Wall I long for you.

I will omit...

- May I say something? - Go ahead.

I will omit no opportunity that...

may convey my greetings, love, to thee Heinrich Heine."

What's up?

It isn't Heine, it's Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet."

Romeo's farewell after their night of love.

- Then replace it - What?

Heine with Shakespeare.

- I'd never write this way - She has no idea.

Get started, damn it!

If you don't talk, we assume you aren't willing to help,

that you are working for the Stasi That's treason, Ms. Schubert.

Paragraph 100: A relationship that endangers peace. You get 5 years.

Here you are.

Goodbye.

The fucking West!

Nothing against the handicapped. But I hate deaf-mutes who aren't deaf.

Uschi?

Uschi?

- Yeah! - At last!

Know what? Sascha works

for the Stasi, says the CIA. They're blackmailing him to get at you.

And the CIA wants to use you to get at Sascha.

The Secret Service wants the same They came to my place...

- to your place. Your mother, too - No, that's my aunt.

Okay, your aunt. She wants to get me panties 'cause mine are unerotic.

She called 'em an "erotic hit

- Uschi, did you take anything? - Sure.

I took everything in stride, but I didn't say anything. Here!

I had to sign for you. You work for the CIA and the Secret Service.

What? Oh God! And you're now a Stasi informer.

No.

Oh yes. I had to sign for you The Stasi came to see me...

to see you.

Oh no!

I have to tell Sascha not to believe them, but how?

Stay here one more day and show it to Sascha.

But make sure no one listens.

- Did it work with Sascha? - What?

- Thu in? - No.

What? It still didn't work?

Oh no! I still haven't seen much of the West

except for your place and the spies!

- Same time here tomorrow? - Yeah.

Okay. I gotta go back. I mean, you do.

Those two spies have been after me.

They're probably waiting for me On your mark, get set, go!

I don't believe it.

She came here to pee for a 25-mark mandatory exchange.

- Grandma Emma, I have a problem - Hit me.

- Oh, a visitor. - This is Sascha's girlfriend.

At least one girl who believes in us...

- Friendship - Franziska.

Kurt Meier, Sascha's father.

Have a seat.

Did you have a meeting?

So, do you want to disband?

Not yet.

It would be our downfall.

If the youth organization turned its back on its founding party.

That's treason.

It's high treason. They used to execute traitors.

You want to shoot all Free German Youth members...

for not doing the bidding of your party? Blockhead!

- I didn't want to... - What do you think about the fugitives

who got their training here and now ran to the West?

They were worthless here, and they'll be worthless over there.

Most of them will soon want to come back

to our social security and our steady jobs.

- But we won't let them return - Hansi's in the West.

He left!

He went to West Berlin, to the Lehmanns in Kreuzberg.

They just called to say they found a blue budgie on their balcony.

And all he says is: "I'm Hansi Meier, Lenin Boulevard

That's what I taught him. And they called information.

Isn't that nice? They're bringing him to the checkpoint at Heinrich St.

And I'm going to pick him up, my Hansi I'm going to pick him up.

- Is he allowed to return? - Huh?

Hansi?

- Thanks just the same. - You can wait for Sascha.

- Comrade Meier? - Yes?

We have some information.

Sergeant Meier, that's it for today Report for duty tomorrow.

You'll hear from us.

Come on in

Stasi

His new girlfriend, a good girl. Studies History at Humboldt University.

Introduced herself wearing the uniform of the Free German Youth.

Don Juan!

He has another girlfriend in West Berlin.

That's why we're here. She works for the CIA.

What?

The Stasi is blackmailing me.

Are you afraid?

Not anymore.

We'll observe your son around the clock for his own safety.

We now know who that girl from West Berlin works for.

Our country's border, where your son is on duty

is on alert, particularly at the moment.

- Good night, Comrade Meier - Good night.

Lieutenant, our little sergeant is screwing his East German sweetie,

and we're watching over him.

- I forgot my cigarettes up there - I'll get them.

The Stasi's treatment of peaceful demonstrators

on the 40th anniversary of the GDR

will be investigated by a Citizens' Committee

and members of the Stasi.

Sorry to disturb you.

- The Comrade Major left his cigarettes - I'll get them.

GL'lnter Schabowski announced new travel regulations.

All the checkpoints between the GDR and the FRG...

Comrade, do you realize what just happened?

It's strange. I have the feeling I've seen him before.

What?

- He saw you? - Yes.

She's over there now... Ziesche?

Ms. Schubert, you think Ursula is coming back?

Why not? She has social security and a steady job here.

Shut up! She'll end up in prison just like you

for at least 5 years!

Who knows if we'll ever release you from prison, Meier!

We'll have to think that over.

Headquarters to Bruno 7.

Bruno 7. We have an arrest in the Romeo 89 case. Come in.

Bruno 7, did you sleep well?

Don't you see what's happening? Maintain radio discipline! Over.

At your command.

- Franzi... - Shut up! Not one word!

Understand?

Hey, Schneider. What's the problem?

Drive on through!

Drive there, there and there.

Hey, we have to get through What have they got there?

Bananas!

What's going on?

- Roll down your window! - What's up, buddy?

- Make room. We have to get through - Me, too.

Make room! Stasi!

What? Stasi?

Lieutenant, move it!

People on both sides of the Wall are absolutely overjoyed.

Only the border guards look startled and helpless

staring at the people walking past them into the West, free and without fear

welcomed by curious West Berliners or relatives and friends who fled

and are now embracing again. What a day!

Oh no! Oh no!

Franzi! The Wall is open! The Easterners are coming!

Got any chocolate or bananas?

Pack everything. We'll go welcome them I even have champagne...

Franzi!

Come on!

Don't spend your life braking You'll never get ahead.

We're moving!

Move it, Lieutenant!

What's going on, Lieutenant?

Hey, you're free! Aren't you happy?

- Where are we? - There's my aunt! Aunt Jutta!

There's Aunt Jutta!

- Where are we? - Open up! Open up!

Lieutenant!

Where are you?

Hey, Comrade. There you are! What are you doing?

Are you crazy?

Back home with you, asshole Maybe they'll take you back!

Franzi! There you are!

- Why did you run away? - What?

You suddenly ran away!

It's all right

Look, even the soldiers are coming.

This is Sascha. And this is Aunt Jutta.

What's wrong?

Look who's there! Uschi?

- I gotta get through! - Uschi!

- I don't get it... - I'm Uschi, and all this...