movie called bornholmer strasse a. for high k. and hans you're going legler the visit to the film set up the us like a journey into the southeast used to get because of money and means the couple were engineers at a state owned signaling technology company. nov 9th 1989 was a thursday a workday like any other for the young couple. who were raising our children homeless gemini and we had what we had everything we needed if you went. you have to remember my husband in hollywood 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 hit. the family lived on the 11th floor of a prefab high rise in the east berlin they had plans for the evening. as . it was my birthday so we could send the children to the grandparents so that my husband and i could spend the evening together. and i know mine would stop. we went to a restaurant called still pool with reservations we made 6 months earlier. we had a nice meal in the holes and drove home planning to spend the

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laws an. 11 30 pm at berlin's bornholmer strasse a transit point the borders 1st began to open here freedom had finally won. now it's off to west berlin. destination the glittering came down from a not. just and we just walked right through without being stopped it was fantastic i thought i just went over with my id was led in this went over there i asked if it was free yes they asked what were you planning to play with and what did you hear in western and no effort just went over there and stood there had my feet on the ground that was it 1st just went over there to see if it's true because now i can go back and forth at any time it's fantastic leaders were surprised and overwhelmed form an incumbent mass at brandenburg gate. they spoke of the happiest people on earth and the united europe a vision and ideas. leave the peace somewhere for the museum. the people must be able to meet each other again freely not just for a few days but only ways. one year later east and west germany or united but bitter memories of decades of separation and a system of oppression remained. i reporters have be

reality the fall of the berlin wall 25 years later these events were recreated on a film set of bornholmer strasse and including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they massed at the wall that night their anger hope and determination. and.

laws an . 11 30 pm at berlin's bornholmer strasse a transit point the borders 1st began to open here freedom had finally won. now it's off to west berlin. destination the glittering came down from a not. just and we just walked right through without being stopped it was fantastic i thought we were i mean i just went over with my id i asked if it was free yes they asked what are you going to pay with. money and what did you do here in west berlin no f. no left no i just went over stood there had my feet on the ground that's pilot that's my just to see if it's true or not stand because now i can go back and forth at any time it's fantastic leaders were surprised and overwhelmed form an incumbent man as a prime demba gate. they spoke of the happiest people are the united europe and fissions and ideas. leave the peace somewhere for the museum. of the people must be able to meet each other again freely not just for a few days but only weighs. one year later east and west germany or united but bitter memories of decades of separation and a system of oppression remained. so let's go to berl

that all changed on november 9th 1909 penfold heard that the border to west berlin was open at the bornholm my bridge he and his wife were among the thousands of east berliners who flocked there to cross over. on the other side west berliners came to welcome. architect christiane coonan who was among them 30 years later the 2 men still remember that fateful night when we met and i asked if you'd like to come to the co 1st shopping . out of east germany and into the west if only just for one night thousands of revelers flock to west berlin. it was an experience that changed lives and bound strangers from both sides of the world for ever. telling these stories still stirs something can make it words fail me all suddenly tears come to my eyes . that's how emotional it was. meter. culture itself can be a concept an object a custom or even a trend but in each of these cases you need someone to make it happen and in the cultural marketplace to set those trends well the annual culture invest congress brings european cultural providers promoters and investors together and its highlight is the cultu

reality the fall of the berlin wall 25 years later these events were recreated on a film set of bornholmer strasse and including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they massed at the wall that night their anger hope and determination.

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.

those waiting at bornholmer strasse i was beginning to run out of patience. he wanted to get out immediately. on the other side of the bridge the 1st east german citizens were returning from that trip to west berlin but technically the next patch. you go on top of the north pole and i got a call from the 1st guard house by the bridge he said a young couple wanted to re enter but the woman had the passport stamp on a photograph and i said so what he replied they have their children at home. sale and. just a lot of the cannot charge of. the cups and i live in the us and i said it no longer mattered whether the people had the stamp on their photograph on not. gotten up to boston dollars and lovely for them or if they could all come back in again to view the others or god but that moment i really didn't care what a party i was really angry at there's another thing you would. involve. for 28 years they said being part of the border dividing east from west. of the slum with everything put together created the motive for my actions i thought i've had enough i starte

laws an. 11 30 pm at berlin's bornholmer strasse a transit point the borders 1st began to open here freedom had finally won. now it's off to west berlin. destination the glittering came down from a not. just and we just walked right through without being stopped it was fantastic. i just went over with my id was led in this went over there i asked if it was free yes they asked what we're planning to pay with money and what did you do here in west berlin no effort just went over there and stood there had my feet on the ground that was it 1st just went over there to see if it's true because now i can go back and forth at any time it's fantastic leaders were surprised and overwhelmed form an incumbent man as a prime timber gate. they spoke of the happiest people on earth of the united europe a vision and ideas. leave the pay somewhere for the museum. but the people must be able to meet each other again freely not just for a few days but anyways. one year later east and west germany were united but bitter memories of decades of separation and a system of oppression remained. so it was all going

point he only came over and said here is the keenest i'm going over to see what's happening in the bornholmer bridge. i heard something about it on the news not long afterwards we followed him. the train not in howard's birthday was to turn out very differently than expected. the whole city was celebrating the opening of the border. here's quite spared his face is quite back on. this is the west i can no longer say which building it was but i know that this was a street and we will welcome today with great jubilation and joy and i celebrated my birthday early. start trying to find i met friends who'd left east germany and whom i thought i might never see again. via. katrina our was in jail many east german dissidents campaign for her release. at the get 70 church in east berlin they held vigils as a symbol of peaceful protest. beside him offer devices that's a lot and have 30 years ago for people like me so that's comes when it's really something wonderful warm really positive to see that today young people are still committed to this on t.v. they have the passion and persistence to gather ha

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.

in wall and so we got into a car and drove flat out to a crossing point at the wall called the bornholmer strasse and people were walking towards us as we drove along this wide blue thought and we thought i would this must be just west berliners have gone to have a look and now walking back into west berlin as we got closer and closer more and more people started coming through and it was a maelstrom of people by the time we actually managed to walk there and the mood was just incredible it was there were people crying hugging each other. you know when i think about it today it almost makes me cry cause we speculated for so long about this happening and people would always ask themselves you know do you think it's going to happen in our lifetime and then suddenly my sense is that it came right out of the blue inserts that are you experienced absolutely nobody who i speak to now says oh it was inevitable it would happen and it was absolutely a shock and a wonderful shock as well. a wonderful shock catherine you were talked up in but it was a bad think i was about 8 years old. my my father

although i did tell you that after a few kilometers further north was the bornholmer strasse a crossing point between east and west berlin one of the busiest border posts in the divided city lieutenant colonel how he started work at passport control at 8 am . on the grounds of all the morning almost cross the crossing point was basically the purpose of my life everything happened there my entire professional life was there i really felt i had a calling to fill that position. for. but movement. on the 9th of november was a normal thursday there wasn't much travel activity around 200 west germans came in just under a 1000 from west berlin would stop counting east german citizens. a normal day in divided berlin at least that's how it seems. to me. what no one knew was that the working group was in the process of making a momentous decision on travel policy. on their own initiative. and the other officers changed the brief given them by the politburo an unprecedented occurrence in the east german state. on top we saw this as one of our last opportunities to stabilize the situation in east g

and mine 8 of us piled into my little 5 seater our car and drove to bornholmer strasse are there born on a bridge on a fork of the crossing we heard was open to his i. i i. i. he hid them and i can still remember the particular quality of the light in the stony expressions of the border police who had no idea what was going on either and we crossed over and there we were in west berlin it's this for. instance a curfew was deeply moving were drove back after midnight then again i wanted to go to the brandenburg gate. i. was funded as a teenager it seemed so exciting. you were trapped behind a wall you couldn't cross and then at some point you could run but when i saw the film footage i just thought it uncool they're wearing those crappy clothes those horrible bright colors as a teenager i just thought man who wears that sort of thing and they're hopping around on a wall of ice you know having to type but by my mid twenty's i found most clothes totally cool on the street someone you know. i i'm. pleased that. sunday morning chance is helping his friend james band get ready to perform in

reality the fall of the berlin wall 25 years later these events were recreated on the film set of bornholmer strasse and including the emotions that overcame many east german citizens as they massed at the wall that night their anger hope and determination. i can and hans you're going legler were also at the wall on the night of november 9th 1900 not today there guests on a film set. this was sponsored it's amazing to watch 25 years later. good. for her.