it. even got white hair. learning budget language head nodding off the list gets me and pick up the trinity to instruct us to say you want to know their story influence her fighting and reliable information for migrants. once this is. it was the night when the seemingly inconceivable became reality the fall of the berlin wall. 25 years later these events were recreated on a film set of bornholmer strasse including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they mastered the wall that night their anger hope and determination. and hans york unlikely

are also at the wall on the night of november 9th 1989 today their guests on a film set. this for us wanted it's amazing to watch 25 years later. i. was her was her ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ha i can hunch you're going legler live to get what was then communist east berlin for them the film set is like a journey back in time to the moment in which their lives and the country they lived in changed for ever. dismissed it's a very emotional moment for me watching this right now even though of course it's just a movie. culture and cut 2nd hons martin fleischer 1st met

each other on bornholmer bridge that night. she lived in the east and he lived in the west of the fight and said. listen close when the people start to chew it makes me start to choke out but i feel like i want to join in but i have only just. an amazing moment it's like a journey back in time to this sink. credible moment in history absolutely. for catherine and hans martin that chance meeting on the bridge sent their lives in a different direction. yes to lived in west berlin philcon family in the east for years they were separated by a wall but they kept their friendship a lot. on the morning of november 9th 1909 the wall still seemed a fact of life impervious man on yielding. a

moving van was underway in the east berlin district of france lower back. it was headed to the villa because apartment. the movers were there to pick up the bill because belongings after 3 years of waiting their application to leave easter bunny for the west had been approved. they were due to leave on november 13th 1809. and if you we don't really put out a few boxes of the things we were going to be allowed to take with us and transport them to need the movers came in early in the morning of november 9th to our apartment to take them to look at his apartment when some goods if it. looks yes good lived on kaiser down in west berlin. he's often with my

father in funk in them and my father was here when the movies came out when i got home from work coming out of pot meant in the company in the back the full of moving boxes for the belonging to the vehicle family. and a feel good family had been friends for years they went on holiday together in hungary. 4 days later they were planning to see each other again in west. for their son johan in the upcoming force excited but also a bit scary. don avoidant up she found a good guy policy with taken some sweets at his day. also we couldn't take all of his toys so exhausted the months and told him we could only keep the things that were the most important to him because we told him we'd bring the rest of his toys to his friends a daycare. for the milk

a family live in communist east germany meant that they would leave everything behind their families their friends and their old way of life. the small. oh he thought it wasn't easy he had missed many home months thinking we'd never be able to go home where we go night and visit every one on one with denise but you didn't know what the regime would do. we had that people who left we never allowed back to visit us who were close and often. but that night everything changed. 25 years later in the dressing room of a film 500 people gathered to recount those events in a made for t.v.

movie called bornholmer strasse a. no. no. for high k. and hans you're going legler the visit to the film set up almost like a journey into the southeast used internet because like you and me means the couple were engineers at a state owned signalling technology company. november 9th 1989 was a thursday a work day like any other for the young couple. raising our children was germany and we had what we had everything we needed if you went as you have you have to remember that my husband and i we were an ordinary family going about our daily lives. we lived an ordinary life and we didn't call attention to ourselves i'm going to leave it so. the family lived on the 11th floor

of a prefab high rise in east berlin they had plans for the evening. as they had to have it was my best day so we could send the children to the grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. in the mind of woodstock but. we went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier on as may be we had a nice meal in the holes and drove home planning to spend the rest of the evening together celebrating my wife's birthday why it bored stop manifold begin with on the weekend by the t.v. was on and then came schabowski press conference as a conference but before to protect the police district offices in east germany are instructed to issue travel pieces without delay. karen and frank who had been planning on leaving 2 days later read a goodbye party with the neighbors and the t.v.

was on her mind this far as i know it takes effect immediately and. i trust i didn't really understand what was happening. in west berlin but yes go built this friend was also watching the news on t.v. . according to the east german politburo like a show gunter schabowski with east germans will be perm. had to leave the country name and move to the shock mind of course i immediately thought can this be true. what's going to happen of course that so and then a few minutes later the phone rang and it was frank calling me. to him as i said to him looks did you hear that he said yes let's go and meet at almost cost under the new phone i'm on a softer than my husband said look what if the boat is about to open i'm coming to get you and we'll go get out things together and i'll get you honey stressed i'll be back in

a moment you don't eat my life put on my tennis shoes and ran to bomb almost 700 metres was a good funds even with me it's been you know it was the one and i got in my car and i headed over there driving a bit faster than allow to probably on my way to bornholm a bridge. so long that when that announcement on television and we wanted to see if we could actually do it with this man as an effective means of some kind. at 9 that evening the checkpoint behind bornholmer bridge was closed as all of us. in west berlin a protest march was drawing to a close on the car 1st of all of our. demonstrators did not want the official shop closing times to be extended. in east berlin the 1st handful of people were beginning to head to the border one was our own right arm ski a photographer who had been secretly documenting events. last

week that i saw him so he recalled the events of that evening. he comes home and we arrived at porno mistrusts around 9 in the evening when we were standing behind a store for about 1015 maybe 20 people thought we were practically the 1st to arrive and it was a pretty tense situation but no guns underspend is a. it isn't because of the border guards were aggressive they realized something was going to have some of them have problems so quickly realized that something unusual was about to happen was they kept shouting and asking whether it was true that we'd be able to travel over to west berlin that night without these german id cards but after all that's what should be asking it said on t.v. that's how we understood it in any case there was. a protest at the checkpoint was gathering force. if you have

a beard rather you have your god you have to have i don't want them any crowd gathered and i pushed my way through the gate on how much to go on the bomb and everyone was there and guns you were going forward they were fired after and they wanted to cross the border people were fencing for seal and was from philco was right at the front and was captured on film by a television crew of the year you have been who were it was a moment that was also captured in the movie was fun to see you know i was very excited and thought this can't be happening you don't we were all standing there and the border police didn't know what to do. we saw that they were on the phone talking. because in the scene then a police car arrived in new york and communism puts a bar. everything on it for the sake of public order in

safety. we ask you to leave the area in front of the checkpoint and to apply at the proper registration office. we cannot authorize traffic or minutes here at this moment. most of us only this is complete nonsense i could have stayed at home this is utter bull loney they don't know what they're doing that kind of awesome didn't see the irony. meanwhile the t.v. report had brought high care and i'm sure can leg levelers birthday celebration to an abrupt close. and how modest that is still gives me goose bumps at that moment we just said nothing. will be abided. because after we got to have you think i'm still there and we went to the hallway and put on our coats and once he happened to know. we got in the car and sped towards bornholmer bridge

which was the closest border crossing going to of them i climbed up onto a trash can and took a few pictures and before it was quite something. police bundle. on 0 can still has those photos. in a movie they recreate shows the crowd was still calling for the checkpoint to be open. he says but he did i still remember the chanting from wind and looking back but i'm impressed by how peaceful it was and there was no violence human and no one threw a bottle or stoned which could easily have happened it was completely peaceful while foolish. foolish weekly the film also recalls those moments. as and then when the one of them for the little more and more people kept going up and saying look here's my id going to come across now for

a while or not physically i'm out and said anyone who wants to cross the street to do so i was standing at the gate and i said well then open the gate and then it actually opened and i just stood there some i was right at the front so what could i do but give you a pretty by guess i'm going to give even if most of them pretty old pushed me in that it hurt you're going to like your witness the events while standing on top of the trash can. and i saw one person pass the border checkpoint with a. gun as it felt like it was just a few seconds later the few posies just a few seconds and one more person walk through wish and then another. and gave them our id cards. and they stomped them. and they told us to continue. i was just. one of the nieces of you i was a baby but the legs about the stem you wouldn't because they didn't put it on the regular spot but if you know as well as i say stunted by top photo that's ok and

later i found out that mate we had a german citizenship revoked i think. it later emerged that the border official allowed a few people to pass hoping to defuse the situation. but more and more people began to managing to cross at 11 30 pm the border official opened the gate in order to try to hand the standoff peacefully ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah right by the barrier and just sprinted across the bridge we're going to keep. on the western side of the bridge where frank's friend looks was waiting the crowd also began to move forward . because i started running to the bridge and frank was running towards me and we met somewhere in the last 3rd i think it was with. wings that was

it i held up my identity card and it was caught on video come on i had been waiting 3 and a half years. that was how long from phil k. waited for permission to live in freedom from one moment to the next it had become reality for all east german. chaps and it's as i said to look i'm going to fetch my wife and our son your highness and i'll be right back into the community but if you don't. well from phil k. headed back to his family the leg lawyers and their friends ended up in front of a t.v. crew. on impulse suddenly there was a bright light and a microphone appeared and we were asked a question. my friend was so overcome with emotion that he couldn't even get a word out. of all this to blame. when we saw on t.v.

that we could cross without a permit we got up from our birthday party and hopped in the car with the most of us wonder what he got to do we want to look around set foot in west berlin. going to go back a little yes we'll go back. but not everyone was in a party mood that evening including contra who worked as a lab technician. and if it's not identified pretty strongly with east germany it was my home no question kind of help me and i felt a strong commitment to it i had everything i needed really just the few. seconds left on bornholmer strawson and followed a line of cars to the checkpoint. on the western side of a student from west berlin arrived at the bridge at a party and friends brought him along. martin fleischer climbed onto

a pillar of the bridge and watched what was happening. done things that's when masses of people started streaming over it was an incredible atmosphere felt that by then at the very latest as it had become clear that this was just an unbelievable historic moment and inductors i saw was one of. them he decided to walk over into east berlin for the very 1st time for him it was a world that every bit as strange as the west seemed to contra. was monday tuesday and i just stood there and watched the next i mean i wouldn't have the courage to cross if someone hadn't spoken to me. you know i devoted at the start he suddenly appeared and sat down next to me announced well where you're from the offical. i said well here from the east. and he said i'm from the west.

comes once we started talking and i asked her if she'd ever been to the west. he said i said i'm a bit afraid i don't really understand what's going on here pussy it was. it was a chance meeting made possible by the events or just a few hours. i said look everyone's walking back and forth camille i'm from the west you know and i don't even have an idea on me he got a kind of i didn't have any connection to west germany because he does have some i was thinking i'd prefer to stay here in my warm cozy nest. but hans martin was relaxed it was no big deal he had nothing to be afraid of. consider and he sort of pulled me along with him or not mr mix good. bye then frank had returned to the

empty apartment he and his family were due to leave east germany officially in a couple of days but he did not want to wait the situation seemed too unsettled. it was about midnight when frank returned and he had managed to hire a taxi driver about offering him last $100.00 east german mark bill. maher pushed open door and. i grabbed my wife my son and our suitcases and we got in the taxi and drove the few 100 meters to the border. wouldn't understand know if i'm out of the offices in uniform looked at us probably wondering what we were up to. i thought they wouldn't let us pass on this we were the only ones with a suitcase and a child. and then one of the border guards i guess i've given him a questioning look on said to me that direction go that way oh. my god

incredible i can't believe it. well after midnight let's just go welcome karen and your highness philcon. and i put them in the car with their suitcases to food and let's come on that struggle longer but it was surpassed that we were hardly moving. to. find out we were basically stuck in traffic. and you know there were lots and lots of cars people were getting out and offering cheering with the. head around 1 in the morning at her 1st and dom in west berlin turned into a giant euphoric party location vying for it was amazing the feeling of total joy from the. country and from east berlin and hans martin from the west had also crossed the border. birth that no longer existed.

in science it's going to be supplied to them oh it was really funny every way we lens people asked us where were you from the east to the west and he was just this wonderful at just been told just an adventure. so didn't type of it at least as much we went on a sightseeing tour of west berlin. and i had my car i think we went to the brandenburg gate 1st one boy told. was there thousands of people were dancing on top of the wall. with one of the mics and we drove around and just bastin it all soaked it all up. let's say it was really a magical moment it's momentous. the legless have their final toast to hike his birthday on the car 1st and. the top fall of the cold that's what happened with our plan to celebrate her birthday with just the 2 of us never materialized 'd i think we got home and to bed sometime around 4 in the morning.

but the next day at 10 minutes to 7 we were back at work a full months. trim and hans martin were out past dawn soaking up the moment. he had been sent to shop leaving we exchanged addresses and phone numbers and made plans to meet up with. then we just figured well let's see what the future brings. turn on hans martin fell in love and stayed together for 5 years she showed him eastern germany and he helped her find her footing and what for her was a new world. for hiking and hans you're going to take learning now for all these german citizens the next years brought many chala. judge but they too found their footing. and they still take pride in that today.

was monday i think we have to keep talking about it and remembering how peaceful it was no one lost their life and was delude themselves even complicit and that's the most important message we need to remember about the fall of the wall in 1909 was. to. get over this it's i think both sides have a hard time imagining it could have turned into a bloodbath you know we were incredibly lucky that no one accidentally fired a shot up before and it's a stroke of good fortune for german history that that didn't happen because he stood there watching just doesn't this is. the wall dividing east and west berlin which it seems so permanent so impregnable was toppled overnight. for your vision because we couldn't really believe it it was unthinkable it wasn't a realistic idea that the border could just fall from one day to the next. but we

were in a movie that moves me to remember that we were a small part of that history into these are. just made up by evil on the spin i believe it we saw it happen live it changed our lives in so many ways that's something i'll never forget this with. the 2 families they yes because in the village has remained friends through the turbulent years that followed german reunification. sometimes they go back to bornholmer bridge to remember how they gathered there with thousands of others on november 9th 1089. today the bridge that once separated east and west berlin is just a normal said he like. inner unified germany.

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