Original subtitles

This is Mike, the best uncle in the world.

Pojechali! - Pojechali!

He's the captain of Jonathan, Fabian and me.

We're about to launch Operation Sputnik.

The test run will show whether our home-made satellite is flying.

Signal - Loud and clear, Captain.

In seven days the space station "Mir" will be above our village.

This is our chance to launch the Sputnik.

Then we send a greeting of peace to the cosmonauts and into the world.

It does work, doesn't it?

I built it, it works.

They will memorialize us for this.

Just one?

Well, plus the parade and all the trimmings, of course.

Testing.

Testing.

Dear TV viewers of the German Democratic Republic.

I am proud to be the first German to take part in a space flight.

And that was Friederike Bode from Malkow.

We're returning to the capital.

Rrrr.

Rike, the wind is too strong. - We need the antenna.

We have to stabilize the balloon. Right hold!

Hey! - Hang on. Shit!

Rike! Rike, you have to hold the balloon.

Rike, it's flying!

I can fly.

Rike. - She's flying!

I'm flying!

Whoo-hoo!

Look out, Mauder!

Stop the balloon!

I said stop the balloon.

Get out of the way!

Whoo-hoo!

Uncle Mike! Uncle Mike!

Rike!

My name is Friederike Bode.

I am 10 years old and live with my parents in Malkow.

How many times? - No West German TV in the lounge.

Get off of there!

We own the old inn in the village, where good food is rare.

But there's always a good mood and beer.

Mama, Papa, the beautiful Steffi and my deaf granny will make sure of that.

More beer?

It's about the food, Grandma. Don't scream.

And this is Malkov, a village in the German Democratic Republic.

This is the country where I was born.

It is bordered by a huge wall of concrete and barbed wire.

Anyone who tries to get through will be shot there.

It is also forbidden to build a balloon with which one can escape.

But that's not what it's about Jonathan, Fabian and me.

What do we care about the wall?

We want to become cosmonauts and fly into space.

I reprimand the students Friederike, Jonathan and Fabian.

All three have praised something a while ago.

They wanted to live and learn according to the laws of the pioneer organization.

But they violated the pioneer laws by their behavior.

You've damaged the reputation of our school.

Do you have anything to say? - The field is locked.

Mauder shouldn't have gone out into the field.

If he had followed them, nothing would have happened.

This is your second reprimand.

The next abnormality is followed by disciplinary measures.

I mean it. I mean it.

Do you understand that, Friederike?

Location 44 secure, quiet location. Waiting for further instructions.

Do you copy?

Do you copy?

Thanks, now sit down again, Oliver. - Thanks, lieutenant.

First lieutenant.

So that was the AZR 105 M.

This is used to operate the control centres of the Kdo LSK/LV.

And I brought you something else.

A surprise, so to speak. Who can help me?

Oliver.

Just spread it out on every table. - Yeah.

You can be seen on the first page.

There you are with your last visit with us in the barracks.

You got that? Downstairs. There's your class teacher, too.

Aaah! - Olli?

Everyone, please remain calm.

Friederike tripped me. What did I do?

Olli lies! - I don't!

Friederike, out! Yes, out the door, by the end of the hour.

You're so screwed. Friederike, that's enough.

Many associations had called for demonstrations in Berlin.

Take that thing off!

The demonstration formed in front of the ADN building.

At the beginning still completely quietly, as if one does not trust the authority promises.

I wish for my great-grandchildren...

Well, here we are.

Thanks for the lift.

Bye-bye.

Rike.

How's the arm? I write with my left hand.

With your bastard claw. - I got a 3 in the blurb.

Come and sit with us.

Something wrong with Grandma?

No, it's about me.

But you didn't do anything.

He helped you build that stupid balloon.

Are you going back to prison?

Rike.

They approved my application to leave the country.

I have to leave the GDR tonight.

Get out of here!

When I left school...

... I believed that the world was open to me.

I joined the army even longer just to become a pilot.

I wanted to be a cosmonaut, fly planes.

Well, travel, see the world.

More than just the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest.

Do you understand?

Rike, they'll never let you and me fly into the cosmos.

That's why I applied to leave the country.

What about me?

Have you thought about what happens when you go to the West?

Across the border?

I'll see you when I'm a grandma.

I'll call you as often as I can, I promise.

Besides, I can send all the great stuff.

I want you to stay!

When you're in the West, you're as good as dead to me!

I request permission to leave the ship.

No permission granted.

I put my Digedags comics in your lab.

They just didn't fit in the case anymore.

Great.

If you need help, you can ask Karl. You can trust him there.

I left him my furniture. - I don't care.

He owed me a favor.

You're captain now.

I'll call you as soon as I get over.

Mike!

You can't go. Please.

Honey, come on, it's gonna be okay.

Mike!

You have to keep building the Sputnik, promise?

First Officer Friederike Bode, Captain Mike's gone.

The Sputnik was destroyed in the crash, my crew is desperate.

Mom, child labour is forbidden!

We live in a democratic republic.

Fabi has no time, he has to help his mother because of the village festival.

I'm the democracy. So come down!

Jonathan thinks the balloon thing is too dangerous.

He prefers to study the influence of centrifugal forces on hamsters.

We need our captain back.

Otherwise, we'll never make it with the Sputnik in four days.

Rike.

Rike!

The Seilers have escaped.

Soon there'll only be three of us here.

Hi, ma'am. How was school?

Cosmic problems, you don't know anything about that.

Do you think.

Hey! - We eat.

The antenna is spinning and it's roaring. Now comes "spaceship interspace".

What the hell is this?

Sí. Isn't there such a thing in space?

Or will they beam food into their stomachs soon?

Beam? That's how you talk in 100 years.

I hope I'll be dead by then.

Come on, at least a little bit.

Since when have you not been an egg? Always have been.

This is new to me. - So you care about me.

Yeah, come on, at least the potatoes.

I'm not hungry.

You have to eat right.

I'm not eating again until Mike gets back.

Then you'll starve to death.

Enough, both of you. Sit down again.

What about Mike?

We're not talking about Mike.

Maybe we're talking about the broken flashing lights.

Then cancel my pocket money.

Is it puberty yet?

"Energy 75 percent. - Get us out of here."

"I discovered a power source on the planet."

"On screen. - It's an energy cannon."

Ah, the shrunken heads. - Pst.

Oh!

"Captain Perk's log."

"We are trapped in a Warp bubble that is destroying our ship."

And you can do to the dishes now.

Mom, the recording!

Works without you.

First Officer's Log: Supplement.

The captain has left the ship and we don't know where he is.

We only have one chance to complete the Sputnik mission.

We have to get the captain back aboard...

"Beam us down, Lieutenant."

Get the hell out of here. We got business to discuss.

And my Nobel Prize? Commander on the bridge.

You can't go to Norway anyway.

Sweden. - What's that?

My father, about the letter from the school.

Don't make it so exciting. Why alarm red?

It's Mike. He's in Berlin.

Here is the GDR, here Berlin, here West Berlin.

There we are, there's Mike.

In between the wall and hundreds of soldiers.

That's where they shoot you! Exitus. - Exactly!

Mike's trapped there, and we're not coming to him.

So the question is, how do we get Mike back from there?

Without us getting shot.

We'll beam him back.

From right here in West Berlin.

Attention, track blown, "sow dead".

Log, first officer Friederike Bode.

Three more days until the village festival and planned Sputnik start.

I have a list of things you need for a beam machine.

You can't buy them.

But there is someone who can get everything.

Even if it's not entirely legal.

Walter. - Just wanted to win the lottery.

Yeah, a few years now, but still in good shape.

Can still exist in 50 or 100 years.

It's gonna blow up on me first.

Well.

Here.

Real copper.

Copper?

I could put a Fuffi on it. - No, let me.

Tell your wife to put me on the asparagus list.

I will.

Bye then. - Bye.

Hello, Rike. - Hello.

Say hello to the cosmonaut. - Hello, Master Karl.

So, what do you hear from Mike?

Nothing, no call, no telegram.

Maybe he doesn't have a phone.

Everyone in the West has a phone.

Ha! And milk and honey gush out of the faucets.

Speaking of, three bottles? - Uh, yeah.

One, two, three. There.

And I need another special delivery.

Uh-huh.

You want to put me in jail?

Mike said you'd help me. I'll put some on.

Preparing for World War III?

Something like that. It's top secret.

Uh-huh. We'll get it.

Give my love to your mama.

I will.

Bye!

Hello, Uncle Mike?

Rike, it's Mike. - You'll have to talk louder.

Rike? - Mike?

Hello, Uncle Mike?

Rike? - Ah, again.

What's going on with you?

We got a big one going. - A big one?

Yeah, Fabi and Jo are in it too.

I need your address. - Marienfelder Chaussee 138.

Telephone number? - Area code West Berlin, 8-4-9-5-6-7.

Due to technical problems, their connection was unfortunately disconnected.

Lie!

Now, ma'am, give me a hand.

Hello? - Brother.

Katharina? - Hello.

Rike all right?

She misses you a lot.

She hasn't eaten anything yet.

You wanted to talk to her about it. - I know.

Things can't go on like this.

You have to get out of there before everything collapses.

They won't wait much longer. - I want to go too.

Then try it via Prague or Hungary. - Ok.

Katharina? - Bye.

Katharina?

All right, we'll send a signal.

The receiver catches it over the phone.

We don't just send our voice, we send the whole body.

All we need is a destination and a telephone line.

Then we beam to West Berlin and back.

We buy real BMX wheels, not such self-made scrap.

Mike has top priority!

But we could cross over forever.

I don't want to go to the West.

"Interspace" in color! - We'll get Mike back, that's it!

And the BMX? Whatever.

Great! Are you still in?

I've searched everything, every book, every "Fliegerrevue".

But there's nothing here about beaming, not a word.

It doesn't say anything because it's classified, wise guy.

How do you build a machine that nobody knows how it works?

I have this. We can get the lens from Karl.

Still 40 car mirrors missing to direct the beam into the tub.

Nothing works without a lens.

... Welcome by comrade secretary Stein and me...

Our flag is hoisted, the band plays a trick.

Forward always, backward never.

Young lady, we had an agreement.

But Mrs. Bode, Rike is hurt bad!

She's literally wrestling with death. You're welcome to stand in for her.

To the glasses, comrades, and oil the engines.

Friendship! - Cheers!

You guys get the mirrors.

Pojechali. - Pojechali.

This one's for you.

And that's for table four.

A direct hit! - We are the best friends.

I know. No fighting, please.

His weak spot is his left leg, just above the knee.

Your grandma knows her stuff.

Miss Bode, what a surprise, I heard about your uncle.

Too bad he had to leave us so unexpectedly.

Well, it's getting quieter in town.

Miss, this is my turf, understand?

I don't want to keep cleaning up after you.

Comrade Mauder.

Do you understand me?

I'll have another mocha, please.

Nothing happens, it's okay, don't panic. Just a little water.

Would you like a Lipsi dance, Comrade?

Stop it.

We could start a folk-dance group.

You all right? How far along are you?

Fabi from LPG gets the mirrors from the tractors. I got the rest right here.

Let's see if we survive the night.

This is my territory, never forget it! Pojechali!

We could go over to Mike's.

To his one-bedroom apartment in the refugee camp?

Just for the first few days.

And Rike, the inn?

We sell everything.

Even your mother?

What's the alternative?

Why don't you butter me up so he can leave Friederike alone?

To beg for a place to study?

I could hire a hit man to kill him.

Act like an adult for once!

The school called today.

Another blame, the second.

And so it will continue. Rike will never adapt.

Pft, with socialist greeting.

Thank your little brother.

Mike hasn't been the problem for a long time.

And that's why we just run away like Mike?

We've achieved something here, the inn is running, we have money.

You want your daughter to be better off than you?

Then go out on the street like the others.

Can I come in?

You like under? - I'm not six anymore.

I told him not to take you to motocross.

I thought it was all too dangerous. But he did it anyway.

He always did the opposite of what they say.

I want Mike to come back.

I miss him too.

But it was his decision to leave. You'll understand someday.

I don't want to understand. I want him to come back.

Rike, Mike's not coming back.

Can you keep a secret?

Thousands.

I know how to get Mike back without anyone knowing.

You lunatic.

Where's the fire? All over the village.

Like this?

Nobody can shave, all the mirrors are missing.

Burglaries, stolen torches, no wires, now this!

Dad.

And the power is gone for all of your nose! Do you call that progress?

Calm down. It's no use messing with the world.

If it were the world.

"Risen from the dead" - I don't want to go back there.

Attention!

Good morning. - Good morning, Mrs Ziehmann.

Mrs Ziehmann, I report that Class 4a is ready for class.

Daniel Lange and Paul Müller are missing.

Thank you. For peace and socialism. Be ready!

Always ready! - Sit down.

Oh, so, uh, Fabian, can you put the two chairs down, please?

Always me!

Where are those two? Over, my dad says.

West?

Fabian, Friederike, what's there to whisper about?

Daniel and Paul are sick, which is normal at this time of year.

Or do you know something else?

Come on, spill the beans.

Good. Then we open our reading book to page 112.

We are treating a new poem: Ludwig Uhland, Einkehr.

Hello, Mr. Karl. - Hello.

Right on time.

I already packed everything.

But be careful! Best Zeiss quality.

For export only. Caution!

It cost me a lot, but...

Great! - Nice work.

Mr Karl?

Fabian, bring that out.

I figured if you crash, you'll need a real helmet.

Like this!

Comrade Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin.

Pojechali, goodbye, my friend.

Mr. Karl, I just wanted to ask if, well, our new project, it...

Dangerous?

A little.

That doesn't surprise me.

I was wondering if... -...it's too dangerous?

Is our village in danger?

Of course I don't.

Our beloved German Democratic Republic? - Never.

Will it change the world?

Yes, but of course! - Then do it!

You know, maybe it was stupid of Gagarin to get in the rocket.

But then we wouldn't know what the earth looks like from above. Understood?

Mr. Karl, Mr. Karl!

You guys stay here in the store.

Johannes Karl.

Inspector Schimanski.

No kidding. You're under arrest.

From you?

Expect a special squad? - That would be the least you could do.

All or nothing. Comrades!

Stop! Mr. Karl!

Get your hands off me! Get off me, man!

Here's your knife. Get on with your project.

I still have room in the car. - Mr. Karl is innocent!

Nobody in this village is innocent.

Thank you.

Ha-ha-ha!

Ah, first prize!

Three reflex cameras, junction box, flat batteries.

Oh, misspelled, missing a T.

A glass cylinder, a lens.

You want me to go on? That's your fucking claw, isn't it, girl?

The box comes to me in the car.

Well, well, well, well.

Your time will come, Bode. Then I'll stand by the roadside and wave.

In this sense: Always ready!

Mr. Karl! Mr. Karl! Mr. Karl!

You can't do this! Stop! Stop! Stop!

I'll be back soon. Don't put yourself in danger!

Mr. Karl! Mr. Karl is innocent!

Mr. Karl.

When do you plan on telling it Rike?

Just before.

Then she has no chance to say goodbye.

We can also advertise: Wants away, look for like-minded people.

Probably more will come up than you think.

But your daughter sure as hell isn't.

Besides, how are you gonna pack her things without her knowing?

I don't know, make a suggestion.

We can call the big Mike. He builds us a wind machine.

We use it to blow the house with furniture into the land behind the rainbow.

You guys want to go? Did you fall?

What are those suitcases?

We, we're going away.

You're bleeding. - And where?

Whew, we're not sure yet.

I'll get a Band-Aid. - Don't distract me.

You've been whispering for days, closing the doors, secretly packing suitcases.

You think I don't see that? I want to know what's going on.

Where are we going?

To the West?

To Wismar, to Aunt Christine's.

Was supposed to be a surprise.

Mauder arrested Karl.

We need Karl's lens, or we'll be stuck.

We have to get Mauder's lens.

Mike can wait a few more days.

He can't! - Why not?

Because I say so. - Mrs. Supersmart is playing captain!

Right! And I say we take off now.

Maybe she's right, Jo.

Of course she's right, as always. Say you have a crush.

Do you think we'll get a new lens someday?

No, we need Karl's.

Man, don't you get it? Next they're gonna bust us!

Maybe there won't be a next time.

My parents want to go to the West.

Distraction in 42 seconds.

Go!

What if we get caught? - Fiddle-dee-dee!

Open.

Stupid Mauder ass!

Rike, that's a rabbit of the race, and it's very expensive.

I give him the freedom. - Mauder kills us!

Now you may run away into the wide world.

Don't just stand there. You get the lens, I'll take care of the rest. Go!

Are you guys crazy? What the hell is going on?

Are you out of your minds? Turn off the music!

Wow! - Looks like Intershop.

Look, Matchies!

Now, why don't you explain the situation to me?

Well, do you think I turned on the music after work for fun?

Ha!

Yo, Fabi, hurry up!

No! No, no, no, please don't!

Where do all these sheep come from now?

It's called the desire for freedom, Mr. ABV. They all run west.

Fabi, here!

Our lens.

This is for the one who tramples my flowers!

I'll make sheep schnitzel out of you!

At least now she could help us.

Let's get everything out before Mauder comes.

Erich.

Where's Erich?

What have you got there? I got Mauder's radio.

That was a super stupid idea.

We could've been killed! - We weren't. Go.

So, to a successful hunt, brothers.

And sisters too, of course.

Cheers! - Cheers!

More likely the impending end.

I'll have another one. - I'm not working today.

I'll have another beer anyway!

Bad thing about the sheep, isn't it?

What carelessness, fortunately no one was harmed.

Maybe there really were holes in the fence, it can happen.

Where have you been with your friends?

We guarded the inn so no one would steal anything.

So immeasurable treasures are stored here.

That makes 80 pfennig. - Keep the change.

Well, Mr Mauder, I'm sure you've never experienced anything like this before?

You're right. - The last stand?

The trumpets of the apocalypse.

As all of us Erich always says:

Neither sheep nor donkeys can stop socialism in its course.

"Egon Krenz spoke to demonstrators outside the Central Committee building."

"We want socialism."

"One who is economically attractive, politically democratic."

"He shall be morally clean and in all things human."

At least I want to see my sister again.

Even if I have no idea how to explain it.

I saw you last night.

I don't know what you mean.

Get out of my light.

Perhaps Mr Mauder knows what I mean.

Good morning, Comrade Mauder!

Morning, Oliver.

Olli!

Tomorrow morning, I want to know everything, down to the last detail.

Otherwise ...

Flo?

That's a boy's room! - I can see that for myself.

Can't it? - Can you get up?

Get out!

So, what does Olli want?

He's been watching us, with the sheep and with Mauder.

My old man is killing me!

If anyone knows, they're all dead.

We have to disassemble the machine.

They don't give a shit about us.

They're sending Mike away, arresting Karl and heading west.

Your friends are gone. So the machine is important.

If it works, it's all right.

I'll take Olli, but for the rest I need you.

Me? When did that happen?

Every team needs a smart guy like you.

So are you in?

If I've done this before... - Right!

I'll leave you to it. By the way, send underpants.

Jo, I'd like a word with you.

Bye. - Bye.

Are you bored, Bode?

Fabi is to blame for everything. The whole thing was his plan.

I was just doing what he wanted.

And what did he want?

Build a rocket. - A rocket?

Yes. - And that's what you believed?

I thought he was cool.

You're much cooler, of course.

So I wanted to ask: Do you want to go with me?

Are you drunk?

Come.

She just wanted to talk? Yes.

Like this? - Yes.

She thought my panties were cool.

You showed her the panties? Don't get so upset!

You show Rike your panties and you don't want me to get upset?

Don't you like my sister? Who says that?

What are you guys doing here? We're making out.

Get him! - Mrs Ziehmann, help me!

She's not gonna help you now.

Because nobody knows where you are. Good night!

Rike's supper is in the kitchen.

Make sure she gets to bed.

Did you understand me, Mom?

You act as if I am deaf.

Table 3 pay? - Yeah, two beers and a soda.

Well, dinner's upstairs. - Yeah, yeah.

See you later. - Katharina.

You have your lives, I have mine.

That's the way we've always held it.

But this time I'm asking you: Don't.

What?

I don't want to lose both kids within a week.

We're just going to see Torsten's sister in Berlin.

Rike's not going to school tomorrow. I gave her an apology.

I'll explain everything to her when we get back.

Careful! - So, okay.

Come on, let's go!

Coordinates entered.

Here, Mike's phone number, get in touch.

Yo.

"Call ET home"? - No.

Phone line clear.

Congratulations. You're about to have a historic moment.

May I introduce?

The first real beam machine "Made in GDR".

This will bring us the Nobel Prize.

If you keep causing trouble, I'll beam you to Kamchatka.

Hello? - You're connected.

Who's there? Hi Mike, it's Rike.

Listen to me very carefully. - The connection is bad.

This is Rike. I'm beaming to you in West Berlin.

To bring you back. Got it? What do you want to beam?

Cheers! - Cheers!

Man, shush, be quiet! Look, look, listen!

"We are aware of this trend among the population."

"To travel this need of the people or to leave the GDR."

We all want to stand upright.

Cause we're never going down.

Cheers! - Cheers!

Well, beam yourself up, Captain.

Switching on power.

All hands to stations.

Going to hundred percent. Load cameras.

"This is... To my knowledge, this is immediate."

What if it doesn't work?

Energy!

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One. ignition!

Uncle Mike?

Fabi, do you smell that? Something's burning!

Emergency power on!

Where'd they all go?

I'm afraid that was us. - The schnitzel?

Man, that one over there on the TV.

Hypothetically, we didn't beam Rike away, but the people here.

Offloaded?

The people just sat here. jackets and glasses are still there.

Maybe the machine short-circuited.

The beam got distracted, came out of the phone jack, and then, bam!

Fabi, that was us. - Boom?

We beamed the humans away.

Mom?

Dad?

Mom!

Dad?

"The pictures show it. The situation is difficult to deal with."

Look, look, look.

"I wouldn't be here right now."

"The wall must go!" - There, my sister!

What's she doing on TV?

Where's Steffi?

We just beamed them to West Berlin.

The rest of the village too.

Well, isn't that correct?

You're ready for the slaps!

Look, they're at the wall and they want to go back.

If you don't cut me loose, I'll scream!

Olli, your old man got it too. - What?

Dad! Aaah!

If you stop that, we'll understand something.

That's Helmut Kohl, what's he talking about?

"We don't want as many people as possible from the GDR to come to us."

"It must be in our interest that people stay in their homeland."

"The GDR government is deploying soldiers."

Bode!

The Brandenburg Gate is sealed.

There's a light on.

We need to beam our parents back quickly.

No chance without a phone line.

Rike?

We need a phone line? You want it in writing?

Is there a radio?

We need a radio link. - I told you.

If we can get the signal to the border with the Sputnik, we're good.

Hello? - We need a lot of power to beam up.

And the emergency generator doesn't have enough juice.

Maybe I can help with that. - You?

Captain's log: The power is gone. We need power to beam.

Olli and I crack the transformer to restore power.

Fabi and Jo get the balloon ready with the Sputnik.

We need to beam people back to Malkow quickly.

Before they get shot at the wall.

Did you even listen to me? No.

Why are chicks so bitchy?'Cause the men are morons.

Now run!

Sputnik ready!

Come!

So, what's between you and Rike?

Me? Worried about Olli. - Why?

Well, Rike and Olli alone in the dark transformer.

The pig!

Here are the fuses for the village.

If we replace the right one, the power will come back on.

Do you want to be a teacher? I thought you'd be interested.

I'm only interested in one thing. So pull the finger.

Look out, Mauder!

Hurry, he mustn't see the balloon!

This is the first backup. Caution!

And? - I guess it was the wrong one.

Faster!

The second.

I can't hold him. - grit your teeth.

And?

I got another fuse.

Watch out!

Bode!

I think your dad's an electrician? Yeah.

What am I supposed to do with that? Read it, if you can.

What can I do...

Am I good or am I good?

Lights out. Get out of here.

Crispy, crispy, crispy, who nibbles on my house?

The wind, the wind, the heavenly child.

Come!

What are you staring at?

What did you do in the transformer?

We restored power, as you can see.

Nothing else?

Friederike.

Thanks, Olli. - Search connection.

Start the machine. - Machine is running.

Olli can still run up units. - Ey!

Captain! - Captain!

Initiate launch sequence and keep an eye on the wind. Go, go, go!

Radio bearing aligned with Sputnik.

Bode!

We've got reception.

He's got a spark. Maybe we'll get lucky. Rike, come in.

Initiate phase two.

If we can make radio contact, we can beam the people back.

This is Lieutenant Colonel Mauder.

Border post Berlin, over.

Border guard, come in. What's your status, over?

This is Alpha 1, come in. - Yes!

Border guard, stay calm.

Look, the NVA, they're gonna shoot. Do something! They can't shoot!

Don't shoot!

Please repeat.

You can't shoot people, you understand?

I got it. Yes!

Tell him to hold the radio to the people.

Go!

Dear citizens of the GDR. Don't worry.

For your own safety, stay away from the border fortifications.

No one will be left behind in enemy territory.

We're taking you back to your home.

To your German Democratic Republic. Friendship!

Booode!

Sputnik ready to beam up.

Ready? - Yeah, man, let's beam her back.

Ready for take-off!

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One. Lift off!

The wall has to be removed!

Then something funny happened: People were still standing at the wall.

The border guards and soldiers with their weapons were still there.

But the beam had the effect that nobody was stopped anymore.

Suddenly there was no limit.

And everyone was looking at our little country.

We had the best secure border in the world.

But suddenly no one was afraid of the border guards anymore.

And the powerless comrades no longer knew what to do.

Aaah!

Get out of here!

Where is everybody? I don't know.

Hello?

Is anybody here?

The wall is open!

Maybe they didn't notice.

Or they stayed in the West.

Nonsense, but not without us.

So what do we do now?

I don't know.

Mom? It's them!

Rike!

Friederike.

Look who's here. Mike!

Captain reports back aboard.

I can't, I'm the captain. You can be first officer.

I'd be honoured.

I got something for you too. - Oh, great!

We were gonna call, but the phones were dead.

Unbelievable: All of Berlin is full of people.

You guys going out?

No, we're staying. - Yeah!

Olli, oh, the wall is up! - I know.

Berlin: You have never seen so many people.

Fabi!

Say, what kind of flag is this? This is...

Man, Basko, nobody needs this anymore.

Nothing from that time?

No, I'd shut up.

We have to retrain. I'm going for a beer.

They say the wall's gone. You know what that means?

We beamed the wall away. - Do you get the Nobel Prize for that?

You may be a girl, but it was great!

You're an Olli, but welcome. - Stop the groping. Swear!

No one can know what really happened.

Couldn't you have warned us?

She always does. And worse.

Ow! - Wimp!

Swear it.

I swear I won't tell anyone what happened tonight.

I swear!

# I slept under the apple tree, and it was full of apples

# When I dreamt an apple dream in minor

# All the apples had faces, each one cried bitterly

# And the apple tree leaned towards me

# Shake me, shake me, stranger my weight is too heavy

# After all, dream your dream under the apple tree

Who wants to go for a ride on the merry-go-round? - Me!

# When a bird came, flew on a branch

# And he was Goldmarie

# From the fairy tale: My friend, watch out, she said

# That tree belongs to the old man in the little house next door

# If you can, because he's in a bad way, help him

# Stretch out, I awaken you from your dream

# Don't act like that, help the old man and his tree

Erich, Erich!

What's that noise? How can you sleep with all that noise?

Mauder! You're not drunk, are you?

They killed Erich. Erich is dead.

But he's got nothing to do with the whole thing!

Who would have thought that? Well, it's fine now. Everything's alright.

Was a faithful servant, led a fullfilled life.

Where is he? - Everybody's got to go eventually.

How about a drink after this shock?