on our vacation home, Summer 1978
Look here. to the camera.
keep your hands away!
Alex, wait! - Daddy, help me!
Slowly, very carefully, is as soft as possible...
Giant giant... Placed on the launch site.
Here on the site the big launch...
The working community shows. If you want an example for the famous word:
All quality equipment for everyone... - That's it!
... here can be seen in perfection.
Report: I am ready for a spacecraft flight SOJUS 31...
As an international crew member.
On August 26, 1978, we have achieved international development.
Sigmund Jahn, a GDR resident, was the first German to go into space.
However, today, our family is heading towards the smoke.
This is the third time your husband has lived in a capitalistic country.
He stands for his boss, Professor Klinger.
Are you aware of contact from the West, your husband might know? -No
Mrs. Kerner, how would you describe the condition of your marriage?
Has your husband ever spoken that he would flee the Republic?
Mrs. Kerner... Did she talk to you about that?
Allow me to present the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
Whatever! Leave me alone!
While Sigmund Jahn dared to represent GDR in the depths of space,
My procreator has let class enemies in a capitalistic country...
Screw his brain. He never comes back.
My mother became so sad, she stopped talking.
He really doesn't talk anymore. not for us, not for others.
Mam, please come back. This is very boring Mrs. Schäfer.
Mam, I love you.
The Sandman is very well adapted to the conditions of space.
But the biggest surprise is that he has become very well acquainted...
... with Mascha.
We even carry out cosmic-style marriages on board.
Within minutes, the sandman and Mascha will come back to earth.
I hope it's delivered, so you can see it clearly.
Mother returns after 8 weeks. As if it has changed.
Surprise! - my sweetness!
Alex. I am a little cosmonaut.
(Caption) Pioneer Park, Spring 1979 - We never talk about daddy anymore.
at this time, my mother married for us. Socialist land.
Our house...
Not only are cities and villages...
as a relationship not a genetic one, there is a lot of enthusiasm and energy left...
For our children and socialist daily routines.
... is grass in the meadow, corn in the field and birds...
In the air and animals on the ground...
My mother became a promoter progress of society.
An activist is passionate about the need for simple from people and fight small injustices from life. - Input.
And fight small injustices from life. - Input.
Regarding: Gaudily colorful...
Maternity gown. Full stop.
And now the report about solemn respect... - Here it is!
Blue-and and white-collar workers, scientists and joint farmers,
artists and veterans workers come to Berlin today,
to accept the highest our country honor in the State Council.
To receive the highest honoring our country.
That is you, Mum!
... and recognition of benefits circulating in the upper buildings...
And the development of a socialist social order.
On the eve of national holidays...
CC of traditional SUGs respects merit men and women.
After , long training is tireless. Me, Alex Kerner,
is the second German to go into space. Deeper and farther than anyone before.
Rocket launched!
I am imagined how I will explore the puzzle of the cosmos for the good of mankind,
how will I look down on our planet and how I am proud to wave to my mother.
How will I look at our planet and how proud I am to wave to my mother.
Rocket launched!
10 years later - October 7, 1989.
Test, one, two...
The GDR has 40 years.
I have no day off with the PGH TV workshop "Adolf Hennecke"...
And feel as if I am at the peak of my personal male magnetism.
Left, two, three!
When I smell change, while the association of rifles is great...
Having the last performance in front of our house.
Alex!
What?
Alex, there's a girl out there. Should I throw him out?
Who is he? - Do not know.
But he made a good impression.
Do you sleep in your clothes again?
Where is the visitor?
The visitor's name is Paula... And that is the date, as agreed. This.
Oh no! - Oh yes, little sister.
Can't you ex-boyfriend take care of him? - He is on standby right now.
We stopped at:... but a woman of a certain age...
We stop at:... but women of a certain age...
... cannot and will not wear underwear, offered.
Fullstop. Even in the GDR, there are not only young daughters on ice and...
Exquisitly slim friend. Full stop. - That is good.
You don't go down? This has already begun. - Impossible to hear!
Now hurry up then. This can be the last time with the members.
Where is Paula? - Yes, where is he? Sleep again?
Maybe I'll see your mother on TV. - at the palace?
You have to look for it with a magnifying glass.
I don't really know if I will go there. All party leaders are there.
I don't know anyone. Even though... I want to to see Gorbatschow this close distance.
There they celebrate themselves, all old bastards.
Well you don't have to watch. - Mum, don't you see what happened there?
And you, what do you want? Do you sleep?
Nothing will change if they all leave. Let's go.
This is impossible, the fat one...
... Workers and farmers' wifes... Who are punished by combinates mode...
... After the 40th year the existence of our Republic!
With greetings, socalist...
Hanna Schäfer.
On the night of October 7, 1989 several hundred people united...
For an afternoon walk, to promote...
The idea goes without limits.
Press freedom! Freedom of the press!
Coughing! Cough hard!
Everything okay?
Are you okay? - Thank you!
There's already Greens even more.
Alright already!
Shape of a chain!
Violence No! No violence!
You might make if you take the subway.
What's your name?
La...
Stop it!
Watch out!
That is my mother lying there! - Stand still! - My mother is lying there!
Let me go, you bastard! That's you me......
Alexander Kerner? - Yes?
Your mother.
How is mom?
What is that?
Mum has a heart attack.
Unfortunately, resuscitation efforts are carried out very late. Your mother is in a coma.
When can we talk to him? - Alex, Mum is in a coma!
Mr. Kerner, we don't know yet, will your mother ever wake up again.
Can you hear me, Mum?
You have to wake up!
But mom is fast asleep. In sleep, neverending...
He circled like a satellite around the event that happened...
On our small planet in the Republic we are even smaller.
Convention 9 agrees to Honecker's request, to relieve his duties...
Because of health problems and thanks for the work of his political life.
Congratulations!
His sleep blurs pension Dear esteemed comrade Erich Honecker,
Secretary General of CC from SUG and Chair of 'GDR s state council.
(Reporter) Berlin. Tonight the Wall collapses.
(German National Anthem) Unity and Justice and Liberty...
Mothers sleep through a classic concert in Schöneberg City Hall.
And the start of giant garbage collection and is unique.
Open the gateway!
Stasi leave! Stasi go away!
Mother continues to sleep. Deep and firm.
He missed my first trip to the West,
and how some friends are aware of our workers being protected and farmers.
And how some friends realize protect us workers and peasants.
Of course he also missed I. My first cultural discovery
in a new country.
Excuse me, excuse me.
Mothers sleeping soundly do not allow to participate in the first free vote.
Helmut! Helmut! Helmut!
He missed how Ariane gave up his study of economic theory...
Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King.
... and make the first experience practical with the circulation of money.
Sleeping that saves her move-in Ariane's new boyfriend. Rainer, enemy class and barbecue man.
Furniture from sleeping will be the basement.
He missed the Westernization of increasing our 79 square meter apartment...
Old rubbish with a red will be bulk waste, okay?
... and Rainer's enthusiasm for oriental habits and ways of life.
The great hormanal ecstasy I experienced watching
a few beautiful legs, does not reach into the night.
Damn it!
What are you doing there? - I.... infusion...
And even the first day angels Nurse Lara exchange from Soviet Union
penetrates his black dream.
There is you again. - Hello.
I'm worried about you. - They have put me on a tinkle.
Mother overslept victory capitalism. - Help!
And coordination visit my hospital.
Do you know what I noticed? When he is in a good mood,
she brings her hair loose. When he is in a bad mood, he places them.
And during the doctor's round, he chewed on his nails.
Don't you think does she have a beautiful smile?
His sleep is ignored, how the work hero becomes unemployed.
TV PGH workshop "Adolf Hennecke" was out of breath.
I was the last and I turned off the light.
Then there is the reprise. As a member of the fast-thinking East-West Team , I implemented reunification very early.
Satellite dishes are growing in our landscape.
Denis Domaschke?
Domaschke. Denis Domaschke.
Alexander Kerner? - Here.
Well, come on. Do not be shy.
Hi.
And hang out, guys.
Hi. - Hello.
Knut Vogel?
Hello, Mum. Doctor Wagner said we must talk to you.
And if I can't be there personally, I think it might work like this too.
This is 5 o'clock now. Most doctors are missing and you finally get peace. Nurse Lara, who washed you,
have to go too. If you can see it you will definitely wake up.
Ariane sent greetings, according to him the idea of the recording is bullshit. Well, you know him.
She's only in the room taking care of Paula who's getting her teeths and screaming all the time.
Mother overslept my unstoppable progress with Lara.
Our first romantic rendez-vous followed 4 shifts beginning and ending shift 35.
Very hard here!
Our Russian teacher is from Minsk and weighs a ton.
And that is all you know about women Russia?
The wind of change blew into the ruins of our Republic.
Summer is coming and Berlin is the most beautiful place on Earth.
We feel like is in the center of the world.
Where finally something moves. And we moved with it.
This is too bad he didn't realize all this.
Well, maybe it's better like that. Everything he believes
It has been dissolved in the air in a few months. Just like that.
And your father? - He is a doctor.
He fled to the West. We haven't heard anything from him anymore.
The future is in our hands, is sure and promising.
Afternoon. We are X TV and we just want...
Hello, do you need a satellite dish?
No money?
Good afternoon!
Do you like soccer? Then we have something for you.
Afternoon. We are X TV and...
We're X TV! Are you interested in satellite dish?
This is Vietnam 1, there are 2 Vietnam and again there is a Viatnamese sports channel.
Alright!
For the World Cup! - For the future! - For us!
Friend!
At this time just run beside.
And then... I will do a real film.
Same label.
Look at this, I will only show something.
That's what I'm working on right now. Look at this!
Don't see yet. Don't look yet, wait...
And... now!
Is that recognized?
Now!
It was a famous cut from 2001, one with bone.
Cakes represent spacecraft.
Got it now? Yes? - Cleverly.
Cleverly.
Alright, everyone laughs.
In early June 1990, was our border with a valuable GDR.
Mother continues to sleep. But I remembered the old words of friends:
"We solve problems by making progress" and I act.
Mum?
Mum!
Can you hear me?
Your mother's awakening is a miracle. But he can't be the same person he was.
What do you mean?
There are cases where patients do not recognize their own child: amnesia.
Memory loss.
Sorry.
Mental Confusion. Combining memory long and short term...
Smell and irritation, delayed perception. We don't know,
how damaged the brain is. There are many definite possibilities.
I am sorry to say this, but mother is still in great danger.
I'm afraid I can't give much hope that he will last the next few weeks.
Well...
Can we take... The house is with us?
Exit the question. He is in very good hands here.
This is also easy for you. He can't take a heart attack.
You have to keep your mother away from excitement, even the danger of joy.
And I mean all forms of excitement, Mr. Kerner!
Every Joy.
This is life-threatening.
And this?
Isn't this a reason to be angry?
My mother doesn't know anything about Fall Wall. He will find out about it here soon.
Your grandson.
Mummy.
What happened? - You collapse.
8 months ago.
8... last month?
I can't... remember.
That is normal. This will come back to you. You only have to have patience.
And what... what happened?
Well, that's... - That's October.
I think you want to go shopping.
And... there's a big queue in front of the shop. And it's so hot,
You just collapsed. - In October?
It was a really hot October. Back later.
Yes.
Then?
You are in a coma, Mum.
I want to go home.
That I promised.
We want to celebrate your birthday. As every year.
Alex, who is complete madness. - We don't leave him alone, we promise.
Mum is seriously ill. It's better for him here. They have equipment.
Just this once, it must be realistic. - No, you have to be realistic.
What happens when he doesn't have one room anymore? Or when someone lets the cat out of the bag?
He will hear what's happening outside here. He won't take it.
All right, all this garbage has to come out.
Is the curtain of the mother still in underground - you can't be serious.
They are rawlplugged.
Oh, good! - The feeling will have to be displayed again.
Can you explain what he did? - What do you think I am doing?
What should I think about? - What should he think? - That you have to make your way.
Or should we put Mum in the basement? - Excuse me, I've paid rent for this flat for 5 months!
Your benefactor, Rainer! - For the whole apartment! 47.80 German Mark! In West that isn't even enough for a telephone bill!
And East You have to wait 10 years to get a telephone line! - Can't you just...?
Mum must find the room in the same condition she left it in. The doctor said
does he have to live in a bad okay? So it's only about this one room.
And when he is better, we will see what we will do. - You don't get what the doctor said. Mum will probably...
That's what you said 3 months ago, when you want to turn off the engine.
That is a different situation, you can't compare this! - What do you want to say to him later, Ariane?
That you have given up your studies, because you sell Hamburger now?
"Enjoy your food and thank you for choosing Burger King."
8th floor ?. - Yes.
Elevator, hm? - Broken. - Damn it.
You can say that again.
My life has changed dramatically.
And the day we want to take mother's house is ever closer,
nonstop like big Russian tanks.
What are you doing sobbing in my closet? - Not in your closet. It is from an old clothing collection.
And how do you see? It would be nice if you would think a little for change.
Look at this. This garbage is what we are used to wear.
Register here.
The physiotherapist will come 3 times a week. Do you have more questions?
Your mother will be alone. You know how I think about this.
Where was the Doctor before, by the way?
Doctor Wagner, he went to Düsseldorf. - I see. And you?
When did you run away? And you want to lecture me about responsibility.
Please lay down seconds.
Why? - Please. Just lie down.
If there is another heart attack: short, strong impact on the chest.
Be careful! He doesn't have to wake up. - Alright, boss!
Ariane and I will arrange the schedule. And there is physiotherapest.
There is always someone with him. This will work.
Most GDR residents have exchanged their savings cashlessly.
There are only 2 weeks left. You must hurry. Because like Gorbatschow once said:
She's late... - Excuse me ?.
Will be punished for life. - I can't hear anymore. - Excuse me!
Can you tune in to radio please? My mother needs a rest.
Alright, boss.
Don't you want to introduce us? - Of course. This is Lara.
Hello, Lara.
Can you let me pass, please?
Hello, Christiane!
Alex! What is that?
Hello? Alex!
Nothing has changed here.
What must be changed?
Oh, if you are bored, you can listen to the tape.
I am afraid the radio receiver is broken.
But I will fix that. - Alex?
It is good to know You are not alone.
When your father...
When he suddenly disappears...
I don't think I will make it.
I never told you that...
I think about putting hands on myself.
But you are visited every day.
And you talk about school and Sigmund Jahn.
Did you hear that?
I'm sorry for causing you so much work.
I can't even use the toilet myself. - Mum.
That doesn't matter.
What is important for you to recover.
I will try hard.
You must rest now.
I will only go to , shop but Ariane is still there.
Oh, Alex...?
I desire passion for pickles. Can you take me some?
It doesn't matter, Mum.
That's what I thought.
At the end of June 1990 from our socialist shop vacated.
Real money coming from countries behind the wall.
While most residents are lining up in long queues in front of Republican banks with their usual patience...
We are still frantically looking for a mother's passbook.
Missed by everyone, the German Mark floods our small community.
Halleluja, Halleluja...
Halleluja, German Mark!
(Song) like a day, so beautiful...
And the money is exchanged 2 to 1. Germany wins 1:00!
Unstoppable Shot! Germany is one of the nil by Lothar Matthäus!
Fix Mocca? - Don't have that anymore. Filinchen crispbread? - Not for sale anymore.
Spreewood Gherkins? - Goodness, where do you live, son?
We have a German Mark now. And there you come asking for Mocca Fix and Filinchen?
During the night, our gray shop turns into a paradise colorful products.
During the night, our shop turns into a paradise colorful products.
And I became king as a customer.
They are from the Netherlands.
Good afternoon, Mr. Ganske.
That is how far they have driven us already... That we have to go fishing in the trash.
Mr. Ganske, do you still have Spreewood Gherkins?
What? - Spreewood Gherkins!
I'm sorry, young man. I am unemployed myself.
An empty glass will be done too.
I want to introduce Rainer to Mum today.
Later. We don't want to sue too much from him.
Maybe you are right.
Yes.
I'm afraid there is a shortage of supplies for pickled Spreewood.
This is fine. This is fine.
Listen, you really don't need to take care of my all the time.
It's strange to me. - Mum.
No, really. Maybe...
... You can put the TV next to the bed. Then I will be managed by myself.
Watching TV is still too tiring for you. - But why? Why not I....
Can you watch TV? - We will ask a doctor.
Mum, we have to talk to you about something.
This is like this...
We want to ask if...
We need your authorization to access your bank account. - What is that?
Do you need money? - No No It's just that you can't run your own bank again.
And it will only be better if...
You signed.
Yes, and...
Maybe it will be better now.
But is there no hurry there?
Are you keeping something from me? Did something happen? Are you in debt?
Please trust us, it's important!
Before I let you have all my money, I have the right to know what it is for me not?
Alright.
It's supposed to be a surprise but...
We receive notifications.
From Zwickau. We can take our "Trabant" (GDR car).
After only 3 years?
And for that we need the money that you have saved.
You don't think... I have my money at the bank?
I have hidden it.
And where? - Where?
I forgot.
I have completely forgotten, it's all gone. - Mum, just thinking.
Father came home late today, right?
Mum...
That's fine. Soon you will be better.
We will celebrate your birthday. As every year.
With the home community. We always celebrate.
This is German First Television with news.
Comrade Ganske West-TV watch?
Ganske Comrade falls in love. During holidays in Hungary.
With retirees from... Munich.
Since then the love of the party has suffered.
Oh. - Well...
Are you done?
I'm sorry I'm late again. - There it is. Even with a balcony.
Since some residents did not even return from their holidays in Hungary,
the apartment market in Capital eased away.
There are quiet apartments everywhere, which we only have to enter.
People moved to the West last year. A colleague gave me a clue.
Get the burden! - Get the load that - This works! - Tempo-nuts!
Globus green beans! That can't be true.
Mocca Gold Fix! I have been searching for it all the time!
Can I have that?
I have to go.
Sleep on...
Morning, Mum.
Morning, Alex.
Are you in a hurry? - I have to go to work.
Alex, please remember TV. - Let's talk about that later.
Oh and about my birthday. Invite Klapprath and maybe a few students.
As if damn gherkins isn't quite a problem already. Now he wants to watch TV.
What should I do? - Yes, Houston. We have a problem.
Yes, and now? - I think you might have an idea. No, I mean picture.
Oh.
Now? - Nope.
This doesn't work very long. - Semi-final! I will only go to Pollnicks.
Then leave already.
Excuse me. Are they the gherkins from Spreewood?
No, from the Netherlands.
Just showing something old. - What do you mean?
Old East - new things on video recording TV.
News from last year? He will see for sure.
Ah, I don't think so. It's always the same garbage. - Where do I get the video from?
I haven't even got a recorder. - Bad enough.
What is the score?
Beckenbauer, Rudi Völler... You don't want to see it...
Germany made it to the finale!
While the world clock is in Alexander's field rushes to Mother's birthday,
small rounds of ball united social development...
Nations split and let things, which belong to together, grow together.
I work hard to go like the Heroes of Labor to revive the GDR in every detail
in mother's room to this day.
Has the cross-word puzzle been completed? - Untouched like a virgin.
Large. I will take them all.
Oh and these people too.
They put my daughter too. Suddenly: "Thank you, and goodbye."
And for that we worked for 40 years, oh leave me alone...... They will even drop ballet TV.
Don't do anything but watch TV?
To return to my mother. The problem is that
he doesn't know about the Fall Wall - envy.
And that is his birthday next week. He really would love to be visited.
Are you really now? I don't want to hear a fake word.
And we are 20 Marks? - Work comes first.
The first guests are invited. Others still have to be persuaded.
Many people from the Polytechnic Middle School "Werner Seelenbinder"...
It has been drawn into their personal lives. Including Doctor Klapprath.
Principals and teachers Once outstanding People.
We are all valuable people.
Isn't that right, Alex?
I admire your mother. He is an extraordinary educator.
And humans are very good.
That's why he was neutralized.
Some friends in collectively think he is too...
Idealist.
Since your father...
His idealism is respected, but...
In daily school routines,... Can be problematic sometimes.
And then you just give it a boot.
You still owe something. - Yes.
You are a Dispatcher. Can you remember that? - Dispatcher? In the east?
Yes, of course in the East. You set the purchase from the Mitropa- Restaurant.
Note this: EOS School of Education Jury Gagarin.
And you are the Chairman of the Board with Pioneer. - Board group... what?
Group Chairperson. - That is enough.
I will not use plastic diapers anymore. It will be too far away.
Got it? Yes, Group Chairperson.
Here you are, 30 broadcasts from "Current Camera", 10 broadcasts from "Black Channel"...
6 "Colorful Boiler" broadcasts and 4 broadcasts from "A Day in the West". It's all copied.
Sponsored by the library of state and Denis images that are very charming.
I hope that will work.
What do you do crawling on the ground? - Is that a cable for the antenna so you can watch TV?
We have a World Cup. Really a gift. There is no better time for
satellite supply plate to the East.
OK? Got it? We came to phase 3...
What is that? - Do not know. Disorders, occur from time to time.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and Welcome to "Smooth Camera".
Provocation hard against borders. Protests at the Chancellor's office in FRG (West Germany).
GDR Chip-Power. The foreign press recognizes achievements...
Things that go outside and I feel very useful here.
Can't you put a note on the house community pin board ?
Anyone who has a problem can come to me. I can write input from the bed.
I don't know. You don't have to force yourself.
Morning, Alex. Is it time already?
Do you want to drink it? Do you want to drink it? - Oh shit!
Damn. Damn, huh? Shit!
Goodness, damn it!
I feel sick.
While many are hard thinking about themself being the holder of the World Cup tomorrow,
the sound of the past out of the mother sleeping.
Our house is not just cities...
And the village...
Our house is also all trees in the forest...
Our house...
It is grass in the meadow, corn in the field...
And birds...
In the air and animals on the ground...
And fish in the river is home...
And we are happy...
That's beautiful. thanks. Thank you, children.
You learn that from me, don't you?
Yes.
Dear Christiane!
We are here... today... here,
because it is your birthday. And... I want to wish...
You are all the best in the name of the party.
And...
Basket.
for you.
That is your type. thanks.
Klapprath.
Rosenthaler Kadarka... Mocca Fixes Gold...
Globus green beans.
Colleagues and... friends...
From POS "Werner Seelenbinder"... they...
Want to thank you in especially for all years,
Christiane, that you... are...
A... good colleague...
And... a dear friend...
Uhm...
Anyway, I wish you all the best for your birthday and remain the same person you are...
Christiane.
Dear friend Kerner...
All the best...
And... good health...
And that everything will like it used to be.
Lara, come here.
This is Lara.
A student exchange from the Soviet Union.
His father is a teacher for deaf and mute people.
Don't get married too early. - Mum.
Although things with flat will work before then.
My Alex can real block-head sometimes.
And Rainer...
Which Ariane is my new boyfriend.
He... he is...
Dispatcher. - Right, I am a Dispatcher.
I used to be with them myself... All the best from the heart... Pioneers!
I used to be with Pioneers Free German...
Thank you, Rainer.
As a Group... um...
Cha...
Chairman of the Group... at that time... - Thank you!
Get ready, get ready! - Thank you, Rainer!
Yes, Mum. Another year is top. What's changed?
There isn't much right. Paula gets her teeth and a new father.
And me... yes.
Unfortunately, we can't go to Moscow which Café drinks for your health,
but we are all together. And that is the most important thing.
We don't always make it easy for you, but you are always there for us.
And, with any level, I can't think of family better than us.
And that is what I want to say thank you for. Mum , you are the best mother in the world.
Alex? - And we all love you.
Alex? - What happened?
What is that?
That... - Yes, what is the meaning of that?
I don't know what your friends are doing there again... A fata morgana.
That is from the West. - This is a mirage.
This will be agreed somehow. - Please calm down, Mum!
There is an explanation for everything. Right...
Boys, please sing something, will you?
Lara! Wait a moment, I... Lara ?.
"Build, build".
What happened suddenly?
Build. For a better future...
We build our house...
I'm sorry for your mother. What you did was too scary for me.
And what is this nonsense about my father being a teacher for deaf and mute people.
He is a simple cook, you know that. - But he rejoiced in that.
What should I have told him? That he is dead? Under the circumstances?
You mean, when you lie down already, is no different.
Cheers for him, cheers for him...
Lara!
Cheers for him, cheers for him...
Three cheers for him!
Cheers, cheers, cheers!
Just a little further.
Just a little more...
Be careful, huh? We are shooting here! - Can I see your authorization?
Didn't he tell you? - Me? Who?
Oh, what's the name? - Something with "M".
I'll just go and wonder. Until then, you are fine with movies!
Have a logo? - yes. Sharpness to me -? Yes.
We are waiting for the evening sun. - Don't overdo it, that person will be back soon.
Just wait. With the night sun it will look brillant.
When I looked at the clouds that day, I realized that the truth
only a problem , it is doubtful that I can adapt to mother
familiar environment.
Familiar environment.
I only have to learn the language "Smooth Camera"...
And spur Denis' ambitions as a film director.
Hari Günther Mittag, secretary Economy in CC from SUD,
visit the Coca Cola group in West Berlin. The reason for the friend's visit is...
Details of the trade agreement are completed between Coca Cola...
And Drinking VEB Collective Combine Leipzig.
The security of West Berlin officers inhibits the work of GDR television.
Of course, the censorship of the capitalistic press finds mighty losses
Coca Cola group has suffered from VEB Drinking Collective Combine Leipzig...
In patent procedures it's too embarrassing... Please leave the GDR television
work is interrupted! - That, I call the police!
A testimony from international scientists is now finally confirmed to Combine Collective, that Coca Cola is the original taste
developed in 50 in the laboratory from the GDR. Back to the studio.
Coca Cola is a socialist drink?
I think, Cola was before the war.
Don't you understand, Mum? West ripped us off for years!
Until the end of August 593 deaths from registered drugs.
60% more than the previous year. - Now I remember!
What? - Where do I hide money.
In the living room. In a small chest of drawers.
In the left drawer under the wax paper.
Old rubbish with red points for bulk waste.
How can I forget?
Hey, here I am! - Oh, hello!
And?
Did he swallow it? - Yes, of course. - Is it true?
Did he really swallow it? - I am telling you.
They have driven us so far! - Good evening, Mr. Ganske.
They betrayed us and sold us out!
The lack of sharpness doesn't bother him? - Not
And for that we worked 40 years... - We can rebuild a studio.
We will have different possibilites with a blue box.
What... what are you doing there?
And? What should we do with it? - That exchange, of course.
I'm sorry, but the deadline expires 2 days ago.
But that is a special case. - We were just found today.
This is even for us, if you exchange 1 to 4 or 1 to 5...
I'm afraid there is an extension there. And we will not be exchanged for cash anyway.
That can't be! - This must be possible!
I'm sure you heard me. Time has run out! - Your time is soon, you bastard!
These are 30,000 East Marks! That's our money, for 40 damned years!
Now that you make love the West wants to tell me, does this mean nothing?
Please leave our place now.
Keep your hands! And what are you all gawking at?
This is used to be your money, too!
Keep your hands! You bastard!
Are you crazy or what?
I feel like The submarine commander at Northsea-Fleet,
Battle-hardened steel Leaked skin.
Every time I close the leak, each other is opened.
Ariane denied my brother was in the arm, the class enemy raised his Cola-flag
and a fresh breeze from West blew East mother's money around my ear.
What are you laughing at? - Yell.
Why? - You have to vent the air.
Open your valve. Just shout!
In the summer of 1990, the German national team exceeded the plan...
And become a World Cup holder.
And mom keeps getting better.
The pullover marked "Size 48" has a width of of "Size 54"
and length Size "38". Full stop.
I don't know how Milena employees came to this measurement.
In the Capital there are no people who are so small and square. Full stop.
Christiane, the good one.
If it is our fault... If... we are a mistake...
That we cannot accommodate Central plans with our size, coma...
We want to apologize for that. Full stop.
In this case... We will try to be, comma...
In the future, smaller and square . Full stop.
With socialist greetings.
Hanna Schäfer.
Hello, Mrs. Schäfer.
Oh Alex. This is very good for talking to your mother. It feels like living in the past.
A small change here and there and I will send it to the OTTO mail-order company.
Our house is also all trees in the forest...
Our house...
I have got some good visitors. That's Frank and Christian...
From my ex class. - Hello.
Hello. Ms. Kerner must rest now, alright?
Bye. - Alex, why?
Now leave! - And 20 Marks? - What are 20 Marks?
Sascha says, we will get 20 Marks for that!
Hello, Mr. Mehlert. - Hello, Alex. Problems with the grill?
My mother will be happy, just go ahead. And you get out of here!
And tell your friends, I don't want to see Pioneer here again. - Alright, boss.
Are you crazy?
You can't let a boy here!
But why? He is happy, isn't he?
You can't do anything right with you Easties! Have something to complain about is what matters to you the most!
You are just like your mother and its stupid GDR-input.
My mother doesn't complain! He is trying to change
the condition of step by step community through constructive criticism. - Certain.
And you are never interested in that! - Nope.
Have you not noticed? We are at a veteran socialist club.
Good evening. Why don't you take the registration fee?
Yes, let's charge an entry fee!
You calm down. He bought a Trabbi (GDR car). - Is it true?
An estate car.
That can't happen. Paula will get a disability, if it lasts longer. - Oh come on!
20 years in the GDR do not endanger our health, are they?
I really have my doubts about you.
Damn. Shit!
Well done. Get a cloth.
What is that? More nosebleeds.
I know it's a bit stressful for when I also like it,
if we don't have to... - I saw father... before.
Where? - At workplace.
I recognize his voice immediately.
What did he say?
3 cheeseburgers and 2 parts of chips with mayonnaise, please.
Um, 3 cheeseburgers and 2 parts of chips with mayonnaise!
And... what does he look like?
He drives a Volvo estate car and gets a glass with a golden rim.
What did you say to him?
Enjoy your meal and thank you for choosing Burger King.
My father lives somewhere in this city. I see a picture in my mind.
A fat man filled himself with a cheese burger and chips all day long.
He lives in the world and I live in the mine.
He has nothing to do with me and I have nothing to do with him.
Hold still or it won't work.
Will it take longer?
Because I have to go home in 2 hours at the latest.
You always have to be somewhere in 2 hours. This is getting boring.
Oh, good. I have a mother , sick job demands...
And the boyfriend is annoyed. - I got my exam in 2 days.
This is the second nature for you. It's a little put on the tape.
Then I can stop studying, can't I?
I'm fine. I believe in you.
Lara, stop this crap, please!
You have to tell your mother! - What?
You have to tell your mother! - Not because of me, but because of him!
Lara! - What?
Damn it! Lara!
Life in our small country is getting faster.
Somehow we are all like atoms in large particle accelerators.
But far from all the panic pace of new time there is a quiet place,
Silence and pleasure, where I finally got a lie-in.
Well, Paula. Alex doesn't use to be so tired when he comes home from work.
Paula learns we are walking, Alex!
Yes! There is!
Yes!
See? I can do it too.
Paula! See?
My Paula is small. You came to grandma. Come on, come on.
Now we'll show Alex, what can we do, okay?
Right...
Now let's see how far you are Grandma can walk.
Hi! - Hi! - A good afternoon.
Young people, I can just sit here for a while please?
Of course.
You're not from here, right? - No, from Wuppertal.
From the West?
Mum?
Mum, what are you doing? Come on - Mum!
What's wrong with you? You can't just wake up! Shit.
What really happened here?
Central Socialist Committee... Unity Party...
German.
Sound is in order. - Right.
Right. I am ready. - The camera is running.
3, 2, 1...
Berlin.
Still running.
Berlin.
During a special session on the Committee Center for the German Social Unity Party...
Secretary General CC SUG and Chairperson of the GDR Council on the State,
Comrade Erich Honecker, in a matter of great human decency,
approve the entry of a country with people from FRG who have requested exile at the GDR embassy in Prague and Budapest.
In this development, Honecker saw...
Changes in East-West relations and promises every man and woman to enter the country...
Money welcomes 200 East Marks.
Unemployment, prospects for a bad future...
And the election increased the victory of the neo-Nazi Republic...
Making FRG amazed residents turned away on capitalism to try and start...
New life in workers 'and farmers' countries.
Here they park, GDR new residents of FRG.
The FRG enters citizens is accommodated in the Berlin district...
"Center" und "Grove Friedrich". CC from SUG which...
Creating a "Western Solidarity" campaign because of a historic situation,
to ensure that all new residents receive the right living space.
Somehow I have to admit that my game started to free myself.
Maybe the GDR I made for my mother, is one that I would like to have.
Residents who are ready to accommodate refugees from FRG,
please report to their Section Full Power .
How many already exist?
I don't know. Ten, twenty thousand?
Look at that. People want to come to our country.
Where will all of them live? - They will find something.
You heard it, they took care of it.
No, children. This is our responsibility. We must help.
But how do you think we can? I mean, there is no space left here.
Our vacation home. - Our vacation home?
We can do that. I want to get out there too.
Congratulations. You have done a great job. Now he wants to go to a vacation home.
You have to redecorate the whole city. Why don't you start?
But I tell you one thing, I will not take this further.
Ariane and I will get a bigger apartment. In 4 weeks we get out of here.
What?
I'm pregnant.
Again? Can you be more careful?
Don't you think Paula is enough? And Mum?
You can't leave me alone! - Then take some refugees.
You are so cynical. You want him dead, right?
And the unity of our small family is restored.
That's your child. And this is the heart.
Amazing!
All-German babies are on their way. And all-German contracts...
Signed. In Moscow, they count
Which 2 and 4 equal one and drink Champagne Cream for all-German brotherhood.
In Berlin we took our first all-German trip.
I'm not a child anymore. Please take off the cloth.
Don't look!
Where are we going? - Surprise surprise!
The Trabbi (GDR car) smells so new. What color does it have?
You have waited 3 years, half an hour will not make a difference. - It is true.
Mum?
Oh, that's beautiful. Sky-blue.
Right, and now turn around.
Oh my god. Garden.
Remember when Alex locked himself in the bathroom?
We knock on the door and knock. There is no sound.
I climbed out of the hole and watched all the excitement from the tree.
And I laughed so hard, I wet my bed.
What happened in 8 months I fell asleep?
Is he sleeping? - yes.
You have become an adult, you have to.
You look more and more like your father.
Mum...
I have lied to you all this time. It's all different from what you think.
Mum, what are you talking about? - Your father...
Your father doesn't live in West because of another woman.
I lie. And I also lied about...
Didn't hear anything from him anymore.
He wrote me a letter... and for you.
They're all... in the kitchen cupboard.
They make things so difficult for him. Only because he is not in the party.
That's terrible. He doesn't let anyone notice.
But I know.
I.... know and I can't help him.
And then... suddenly there was a congress in West Berlin.
We only have 2 days to think.
Your father wants to live in West and I....
I should have followed you.
Well, I can't do it.
I.... I am very scared.
You don't know how that is. Fill out permissions...
With 2 children. You cannot leave immediately. You have to wait - without stopping!
Sometimes even years. And you...
They can be taken from me. Do you understand?
Yes.
I'm not leaving.
This is the worst mistake of my life.
I know that now.
I lied to you. Forgive me!
My dear Robert...
I think of you so often...
I want so much to see you once again.
Condition The same night suddenly worsened.
Your mother has a heart attack, just like I'm afraid.
Currently, he is relatively stable. But I'm afraid...
We must expect the worst. I am sorry.
Doctors can be wrong. - Alex, don't lie to yourself.
Here, I found that. He lives in Wannlake.
I know, that is his last wish. But I can't bring myself to go there.
Mum won't die.
Bye.
Now you can accommodate someone after all.
Accommodating? Who?
Someone from the West.
You have to sleep.
If you want you you can sleep lying in the nurse's room.
There he is. The idols of my youth.
Like the spirit of bewitching from my childhood: Sigmund Jahn.
Like spirit of magic from my childhood Sigmund Jahn.
He did not give a signature, he did not speak with Pioneers about the secrets of the universe,
the freedom you have in zero _ gravity or the eternity of the cosmos.
He drove small, smelled Lada-Taxi. - Where do you want to go?
For Wannlake. - I know what you think.
That's why many people think. But that's not who I am.
We fly all night. Same as through the depths of the cosmos.
Light-years away from the solar system, strange galaxies past...
With lifeforms known, we landed at Wannlake.
Can you wait a minute?
I won't be long.
Good evening. - Hello. Enter
Is Mr. Kerner's manager there? - Outside buffet. - there.
Hello.
Good evening.
Hello! Good night!
Hello!
Sandman, dear Sandman, it's not time...
We send night greetings...
Before all children have to go to bed.
You must have time left.
Hello. - Hello. - Hello.
May I watch Sandman with you? - Only if you tell us your name.
Alexander.
Listen, the day the sandman is an astronaut.
Where I came from was called a cosmonaut.
Where are you from? - From different countries.
Hi, you little bear. - Hello, dad.
Hello. How are you?
Good.
So, are you also a Sandman fan?
Yes, me.
Excuse me, do we know each other? - Yes, we do.
Yes. I can't think of that. Please help me.
Alexander's name.
Alex?
Robert. Robert! We are all waiting for you here.
Robert, get out!
Robert, we all know that you want to hide in the bathroom on this occasion.
Daddy, you have to give your speech. - Robert, come here.
I'll be back.
Oh, I see it. You have made us wait.
To the stage!
Well, I thank you all for coming here.
Thank you and...
Enjoy the night. thanks.
I'm sorry to have a party here tonight.
I know you're coming, I....
Strange, I always think you have got a swimming pool.
We have a lake nearby. My god, I don't even recognize you.
Now I have 2 new brothers and sisters, hm?
For 3 years, every day I wait for to order from you.
Every day.
That's my very strong wish.
Why did you come?
Mum is dying.
He has a heart attack.
He wants to meet again.
How does it feel there? - Up there?
Oh... there.
It's beautiful there.
Just a home away from home.
This wall is no more. There is no border!
It's not that bad. It's all just one country now!
I don't understand a word. That is all not true. - That's why you have to play together.
And why did I come back to the GDR?
I don't know. Just think about something!
No, that doesn't make sense. I can not do that.
You only have to deal with it, it will be easy.
Mum. - Yes.
Ouch.
I want to wake up.
How do I look?
You can enter now.
And please remember, not the word! - Yes, yes.
What are you talking about? - Is it important?
How long has he been there? - More than one hour.
I hope he doesn't let the cat out of the sack.
Summer is over. I decided to end the whole sham.
But once again we are about to celebrate our anniversary Socialist land.
But it's different from reality... As a dignified farewell.
Pst!
Yes? Running the camera. Starting from 3.
Respected citizens from German Democratic Republic.
If you have lived to see the miracle watching our blue planet...
From the depths of the cosmos...
As mothers can hardly wait, we just move GDR's birthday s...
From 7 October - 2 October 1990: The approaching reunification.
And?
here. My best movie yet, friend.
Too bad nobody except your mother will ever see it.
Thank you, Denis. Without you, it will never... - Yes, that's fine. Here you go.
Off Zoom, before getting sentimental.
And tell me how that is!
On the occasion of today's annual birthday from the GDR, Erich Honecker resigned...
Of all its functions.
What?
We ensure our friends in the world that this socialism...
(Reporter) In his speech at the birthday GDR ceremony...
In the court of the Republic, Erich Honecker was justified by saying that
changes achieved in the GDR in recent months...
Complete the work of his political life. Erich Honecker congratulates...
the new CC SED Secretary General and Chair the GDR council state:
Sigmund Jahn. - What, Jahn?
In 1978, Sigmund Jahn was a German cosmonaut in space.
The head of the new country is aimed at residents of GDR at night.
Respected citizens from German Democratic Republic.
If you have lived to see the miracle watching our blue planet...
From the depths of the cosmos, You see things differently.
Up there, in the depths of space, the lives of the people...
Looks small and insignificant. You ask yourself what human beings have achieved.
Which goals do we set, which goals do we realize?
Today is the birthday of our country.
This is a very small country, seen from the cosmos.
But there are still thousands of people coming to us last year.
The person we see as an enemy and who wants to stay here with us today.
We know our country is not perfect. But what we believe,
inspired a lot of people throughout the world.
Maybe we have fallen asleep from time to time.
But we collect ourselves. _ Socialism is meaningless
live behind a wall. Socialism means reaching other people,
and live with other people. Not just to dream about a better world,
but to make the world a better place.
But it makes a better world.
Therefore I decided to open the border of the GDR.
Shortly after the Fall of the Wall, thousands of people FRG...
Seize the opportunity to visit the GDR for the first time.
Many want to stay. They are looking for an alternative to...
A hard battle to survive in a capitalistic system. - Isn't that beautiful?
Not everyone wants to join career and marketing addiction aggressively.
Not everyone wants to struggle with life.
(Song) like a day, is so beautiful like today...
People want different lives. They realize that the car is,
video recorders and TV are not everything. They are ready to
realizing new life with nothing but spirit good will, and hope.
Amazing.
My mother survived GDR by 3 days.
I think that is the right thing, that he never learned the truth.
He died happily.
He hopes for us to spread his to the four winds.
That is not allowed in Germany. Not in the West and not in the East. But we don't care.
Up there he is floating and maybe he looks down at us.
And see us as a small point on our little Earth.
Just like Sigmund Jahn at the time.
Mother Country My left is a country she believes in and what we continue to live until the last second.
A country that has actually been like this.
A country in my memory will always be connected with my mother.