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Reunification Festivities Berlin October 3rd, 1990

In free self-administration we want to accomplish Germany's unity and freedom.

In this task we are aware of responsibilities before God and the people.

In a unified Europe we want to promote peace.

The national anthem should come now!

Unity, justice and freedom to our German fatherland!

Therefore we're all striving, brotherly with hands and heart...

Thoughts are free, who knows what they will be.

It happened on October 3rd.

Since the opening of the borders on Nov. 9th 1989, hundreds of thousands

of GDR citizens have left their country.

Today many of them live unrecognized among us.

4% never arrived...

THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE

THE FIRST HOUR OF REUNIFICATION

Leipzig, October 3rd, 1990

Clara?

Hey, you're watching West TV?

Imagine: I got the job in the West.

They'll pay me 3,- DM an hour.

I am horny.

Let's fuck.

What a great day!

My new boss is really okay.

He thinks our country will be on top again within 2 years!

I'll make enough money so that you won't have to work any longer.

What have you been doing today?

But you better get rid of that guy!

Touch this.

It's all hard.

Do it to me, Clara, come on!

Help me with my shoes, Clara!

Where people get physically and spiritually transformed,

this happens with political consent.

UNEMPLOYED CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AT FORMER INTERGERMAN BORDER

Stop!

Turn off the motor and wind down the windows!

Show me your ID!

You've got blood on your throat!

It's nailpolish.

She has nailpolish on her throat!

Nailpolish?

Where do you want to go?

To relatives.

What kind of relatives?

She wants to visit her relatives!

What kind of relatives? Are they from here or there?

Yes. Let's see where your relatives are.

Let's talk about your relatives.

Do you think they're waiting for you? I doubt it. Anyway.

You should know we don't like people shooting over like this.

Reception camps are closed. Remember this.

I've had enough now.

Don't you ever watch TV or listen to the radio?

The times have changed.

My dear!

Frau Mertens!

Ah! We are the people!

Frau Mertens, be reasonable, stop this!

We've told you more than once to take away that border!

Believe me, I'm the last person who is for this border.

Frau Mertens!

WELCOME TO GERMANY

Good evening.

Could I use your phone please?

Of course.

One call 50 Pfennings.

You want something to eat? Our wurst is very tender.

Real skin!

No, thank you.

Artur, it's Clara.

Everything is okay.

What? Damned, I love you!

Piss off, you old pig!

Just wait a little longer.

Artur!

Clara!

I put my bike over here, it looks safer.

I missed you so much!

Do you love me, Clara?

Of course I love you!

Do you really love me?

Yes, I love you!

Clara, I prepared something for us. I've been waiting for so long!

See, I put my hand up here.

Just let me open this button!

Come on, no!

Not now!

Stop this!

Come on, let's go over there! Clara!

I'd rather talk!

Later we will talk, Clara!

Stop it!

Look at this! You haven't seen this in a while!

Stop this right now!

Look here, Clara!

Artur, I haven't seen you like this before!

I've had to wait for a whole week!

Cut this out!

I've thought everything over.

But Artur, we've so much time!

We don't have any time!

I love you and I know that we belong together, Clara!

Nobody can separate us, nobody.

I've learned a lot. I'm tougher now. Like steel.

Artur, Artur...!

Stop!

There is a guy... over and over... the stone on his head... crazy...

He is killing my boyfriend! Stop, please!

We can't stop for just every little thing!

There's a lunatic. Listen!

Drive on!

Are you totally crazy? We must do something!

Drive!

Hey, are you crazy!

Stupid cunt!

Artur!

I am a man!

Stay here, I'll try to find help!

Let's make some more soup!

Should the brains go in?

Yes. Put in the brains. Get another pot!

Dietrich, weigh the feet!

Stasi-pig! East German Secret Police!

Hello!

One moment. Good morning.

Why didn't you help me before, in the parking lot?

You have to register. Otherwise I can't help you.

You have no idea what's going on here since that border came down!

It's a nuthouse!

Do you have a telephone?

Darling, of course we do have one!

Where do you think you are? Everybody has a phone here!

Please put your name down.

I don't want to! I want to make a phone call!

Margit!

Help me, please!

Good to see someone like you!

Ah, we have a visitor.

Her boyfriend is lying beaten up 5 miles away.

In the parking lot!

Welcome to freedom!

The lady refuses to put her name down! You can't do that here!

Is that your Trabant over there?

Please help me!

Did you have a nice trip?

Why don't you help me?

Did you have a nice trip?

Father, we have a visitor.

Who is it?

Father, it's a girl.

Is she pretty or not?

Father, she is very pretty.

Slaughter!

Father, I can't obey you!

Alfred, I fathered you in pain You have to obey me!

No, father!

Alfred?

What's up?

Everything is okay.

Is he sleeping?

Don't worry. Everything is okay, Father is asleep. Come on!

Brigitte, father wants to sleep.

And if father wants to sleep, he needs to be left alone!

What's he doing anyway?

I'm taking care of father, not you!

Oh, you're such a brute!

Take that pot, bring it over!

No. I won't take orders from you!

Get that pot now!

150 wursts packed. I've had enough.

Dietrich, the girl is here!

Who? What?

Kurt's girl.

Great. That's something for Margit.

For Margit, that old dyke? She is a shame for the whole family!

Be quiet now! Start working.

Brigitte... the feet, Dietrich... the body. And me... head.

Attention! One, two three...

Chair away!

Telephone!

Margit! What's up?

Leave us alone with your goddamn business!

Who was that?

Margit wants us to fetch that boy out of the forest.

I'm sick of doing stuff for her!

Quiet! I hear father.

Go away! I want to talk to father alone. It's better for you.

You called me, father?

Where were you? I've been calling you.

I was talking to Dietrich and Brigitte.

Why are you hanging around with these parasites?

50 wursts in 2 hours aren't enough. They could do the double easily.

Of course, father,

You're the only one that I trust.

Give me a kiss and do what Margit told you!

Good night, father.

Good night, Alfred.

And stay a gentleman!

Didn't you hear what father said? Go help Margit!

Good night, father.

Good night, papa.

Go on!

So, your name is Clara.

Everything will be okay.

Don't be scared, we will fetch your friend.

Drink this. It's good for your nerves.

Feeling better?

More relaxed.

That's nice, but it's a delusion.

Here we go!

Against the wall, Clara! I'll wrap you up!

Wait Clara, hold this.

Are you scared? Let's bathe. Come here.

I'll shower you.

No shower!

Let me wash your beautiful throat...

your pussy

your belly

The best of a woman!

Margit!

It doesn't matter where they're from, East or West.

I'm coming!

We've been waiting for you!

Look at me! I've made myself fine.

Stop bragging. You're not alone.

Bitch!

Drive, Dietrich!

Then and now one's own soul has always been the center of destruction.

Here's the cave where demons go!

Wall, wall.

Germany ungovernable.

Wall.

These days true virtue is to refrain from doing anything destabilizing.

Germany ungovernable!

Margit, here you are, you old dyke!

How are you talking to me?

Is he dead?

That's funny. Scrambled eggs are thicker.

Poor Commi.

Forget about him, he's dead!

What else?

What do you mean, what else?

What else? He's all dismembered. You could carry him in one hand.

Margit, don't be mean. Dietrich deserves a decent answer.

So what. Shithead!

Dyke!

Cunt!

Quiet now! There are more important things to do!

Go back to work!

Fly, ladybug, fly. Your father is at war, mother stayed in fatherland,

but fatherland is burned down, fly, ladybug, fly.

GDR CITIZENS ON THEIR WAY WEST

And wait till aunt Lotte is dead then we'll have the whole house!

And what if she's not dying?

Let me take care of this.

If she's not going to do what we want her to, she'll be in for it!

But legally? That's not legal.

She hasn't sent us even one parcel in.

Look at that jerk!

West Germans.

You think so?

Sure. Nobody else honks.

What else. Away!

Welcome.

Economic miracle.

Germany, one fatherland!

Pluralism, pluralism.

Germany, one fatherland!

What is your weight?

None of your business! Right to privacy!

What's going on, I didn't mean it that way.

Listen: I am 120 lb. and my husband is only 80. We're from the East!

That's what we thought!

We're here with peaceful intentions.

What else could you do?

Look at this: victory!

What do you think, Brigitte?

The lady is okay.

Er, you're cool.

Okay. We're always cool.

You West people are always cool!

Okay, okay. Shut up!

This here is the free market, you got it?

Yes.

Say that again.

Yes.

Say "victory" once more.

Get out, you old prick, come on!

But we belong together now!

Business comes first!

Dietrich is right, business is first.

We haven't done anything wrong!

Alfred, give me the mask!

Leave him alone!

Come here, my little wurst.

Margit, give me the stick!

Free!

Great.

An angel.

Madame.

Let me show you something.

That's great, ha?

And it's all mine!

No! Leave me! Stop it! Help!

But we are one people!

In times, when everything is possible,

it is unimportant

if something is good or bad!

That was good!

Yeah, really!

Ah, violence!

Papa!

Since 1946, the population loss has been more than 3 million.

Police! Hello!

Forced by the pressure from the Soviet occupation forces,

the Social Democrats and the Communists merged.

Reluctant Democrats were removed from office and arrested.

The first meeting of East Germany's Socialist Party.

What's going on here? Stop this and get out of here!

Hello, police, help!

I'm not scared!

Police!

You're such a pig. You'll end up as wurst, I'll tell you!

Ah, Kurti!

Ah, it's you again. Beat it!

Kurti, Jonny is here.

Turn off the lights.

Kurti, turn off the lights!

Are you starting this all over again?

Just get drunk and burn up!

See, what I'm going to do: I'm taking a bottle from that shelf,

see, unscrewing it, and I'm pouring all that booze all over my head.

And now I set myself on fire, Jonny is burning!

Stop that shit!

Shit, Jonny has a new show!

Clara?

Stop this blasphemy!

Peace, buddy!

Police!

Shit!

Kebab on the road.

The call for unity and freedom becomes louder and louder.

I told you, that thing is dangerous!

Turn that thing off! Father is sleeping!

Sorry.

Turn it off!

Put that into the cellar.

Go and stay with that pussy, old pig!

I'm going into the cellar with uncle and do whatever I want to.

Stop talking, work!

Clara, where have you been!

In the cellar.

Cellar? What did you do there?

Lay down.

Lay down? What happened to you?

It's outrageous. You're only a guest.

Artur!

What was in the glass?

Shut up!

It's outrageous. You're lucky you're still alive.

Without my help the others would have killed you!

There are some movements in this country that might destroy you.

You've got to be careful.

And you shouldn't be too demanding, that won't get you anywhere.

Unbelievable. The whole night has been like this.

She'll lose her voice.

It's still better than those endless TV discussions on reunification.

I'm sick of that boring stuff!

Grind them through the mill!

Nobody can take it that long. She has to be finished soon.

Yes... no.

One second.

I've had enough. Be quiet out there!

Unbelievable. Now that dummy is starting also!

Be quiet! Father is sleeping.

Margit! Something is wrong.

She is dead!

Margit! Are you okay?

Where is the board?

Sorry, it's here.

Thanks.

Now you're mine, you dyke!

Harder, yes.

The woman is gone!

The woman is gone?

Go on, search!

Clara!

Police!

That's Kurt!

Hello!

Brigitte!

What happened to Kurt?

Now we'll never find out where that blonde girl ended up!

Brigitte... are you hurt?

It hurts... my legs.

Let's go away, come on!

I can't.

Give me your hand.

Brigitte, I've got the feeling something is not right here!

REVENGE

What's going on?

Brigitte chose another way.

Brigitte, what happened to you?

Kurti, it's nice you came.

Why did you run me over?

I didn't run you over! Are you crazy?

Ah... bye.

She is dead!

That's no reason to yell like this!

Kurt, believe us, we didn't do it!

Why would I kill Hank's mother?

Who tried to take Hank over in 1962?

And cursed the East?

Kurt! Stop raking up the past!

Incest? Who committed incest?

Your stepbrother. This one!

Does your father know about it?

Nice gang, your family. Calculating and asocial.

Stop talking like this!

In times when everything is possible,

it doesn't matter if something is good or bad!

And Jonny, whose child is he?

Brigitte is right.

Alfred screwed his own daughter Margit!

Is that true? Margit had your child?

So what? We're happy.

And father gave us his blessing.

You've been hiding father for 28 years, why should we believe you?

Stop it, I've got to see father. He gave me a sign.

Think what you want!

You better mind your own business!

Kneel down!

In my dreams the dead are more real than the living.

Everybody is dead, I am all alone.

I've got to talk to father.

Father, help me!

Quiet! Father is sleeping.

Alfred, where have you been? What's that noise?

Father, we have to escape. The East Germans are coming.

The East Germans? What's this? Escape? Never!

Artur!

Father, the East Germans are taking the upper hand. We must escape!

There haven't been any East Germans here since 1962!

Father, it's useless.

I've got to preserve you for posterity.

Stasi-pig.

Police, hello!

Telephone. Come here, you pig.

Hello.

Hello. Can you hear me?

Help me, please!

Jonny is a policeman, a good one.

Say: "Stasi-pig"!

Help!

Artur, what's going on?

Look at this!

It's slaughter day!

Clara, you can lick my ass!

I've had enough.

The thing about my balls I'll never forgive you!

Don't look so stupidly! Father is not well.

Who's that?

That's Hank. Brigitte's illegitimate child.

Kill!

I'm going to report this to the police and I'll make a showtrial!

Everybody should know how bad you are. I'll get up and say: I accuse!

Kill, kill!

I accuse!

Everything has an end, except for hope!

We're okay, shut up!

Police!

Everything has an end except for the wurst - it has two.

Thoughts are free, who knows what they will be?