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PREVIOUSLY

After Emil!

Emil? - Run!

Emil is dead.

You didn't look after him.

They're buying arms in the woods. Not Russians, our men!

Comrade Leonhardt, we have something.

We suspect hostile activity at the border between East Germany and Bavaria.

Do we already have a name?

Georg von Striesow.

My name is Rosemarie Czerni. - Georg Striesow.

Capitalist and profiteer

Do we want to let the imperialists divide us?

Or will we work together to build a just society here?

You stole our land, and ran it into the ground.

My grandson's dead because of you.

You're to blame for his death!

This dusty old place could use some fresh air

This has nothing to do with what we've fought for

It'll be hard and it'll take time, that's what you always said.

Whatever happens, we'll stick together

Friedrich! - Stay here!

Otto!

Friedrich!

No!

LINE OF SEPARATION

A WALL FOR PEACE

SUMMER 1961

OK.

You can go.

Hello.

Go ahead.

No idea. Look over there.

Open up!

Anna.

The kindergarten teachers left.

Took off? - Yes.

I called the school, but they can't send anyone either

Want to come to the office with Mom and Uncle Adolf?

Let's go!

I'm sorry, Jürgen, but you know we're short of people all over

I don't need people.

I need a harvester or our wheat will rot in the fields.

I can only get off-the-shelf spare parts.

I've waited weeks for lumber How can I finish the barn?

That delivery just came. It'll work out, Jürgen.

That was the lumber delivery, right?

Gerda, can you look after Charlotte?

Come with me.

I'll be right back, OK?

Berlin has asked us to make storage space available.

For what exactly?

Well...

Barbed wire.

They're closing off the border

Pastor

We have milk again.

What?

There's milk again!

Thanks, Lisa.

Mom!

Hi there, Cilly. - Hello.

Hello. - Hi.

What took you so long?

Isn't your mother coming?

She's on the other side. On a Sunday!

What do they want with a church over there?

The Socialists are real dumbshits.

Building an iron curtain with fencing bought from the enemy.

Here you go, Franz.

Cilly! - Yes, I'm coming.

Walter's not here?

We think he's got a girl.

I...

I was hoping he'd heard from Christa.

Christa is praying and working.

I'll be right there.

I want her out of that reformatory.

Your daughter stays as long as I say.

That's right.

You're sinning before God.

DearTheresa, you daughter is with God.

The Sisters of Mercy, servants of Christ our Lord.

That's that. Amen.

Enjoy.

Someday they won't let you back in. - Why not?

Everybody's running away.

They should be glad I come voluntarily.

Be careful.

Thank you.

Hello. - Hello, Kathi.

ID, please. - One moment.

It's OK.

Hello. - Hi.

Kathi, it isn't that easy anymore.

Soon it'll be impossible. - Oh, come on.

It's not like it's for free.

Not the chocolate!

You're too fat as it is.

Do you want to put the flowers here?

Hello, Mrs Erler How are you?

Thanks.

Tying to get by, with all the work, housekeeping, and no child care.

I heard.

You can bring Charlotte here.

Like other mothers.

Pastor

I've thought it over

I'd like to have both my daughters baptized.

Really?

Didn't you say... - My husband was against it.

I respect that. I don't want you to think...

But he was a charitable and clever man.

He knew how much it meant to me.

It's my heart's desire.

I'm glad.

Our company is growing, Georg.

Your wife has contributed greatly to our success.

And it keeps growing. - Isn't it marvelous?

Rosemarie von Striesow has been promoted twice.

Rosemarie Czerni couldn't even get hired.

I think moving your production to the Eastern zone was...

...exactly the right decision.

We've cut production costs by over 50 percent.

I don't want Rosemarie to do business with Communists.

We oRen argue about that. - Daily.

Count, sir

Dinner is served - Yes, then...

Look at it this way, Georg,

everyone gets what they deserve.

They want hard currency and bend over backwards to get it.

We earn well and get German labour at cut-rate prices.

My industrious kin in the East covet the things in our glossy catalog.

Yes. And they'll come over in droves to buy what they made themselves.

One day... - East Germany will be history.

A charming thought, I must admit.

So you agree?

To my wife running your Eastern affairs? - He does. I can tell.

Not to the trips to the East sector - We're talking about Berlin.

The Soviet zone is the Soviet zone.

Rudolf will protect me from the evil Russkis.

Here's to the reunification of our country within the borders of 1937.

And to our diligent wives.

Oh!

Thank you, Georg, but I just take care of the children.

You cover my back, Traudel.

Please excuse me for a moment.

You should ty to lay off the alcohol a bit.

It's not good for you.

I'm doing splendidly.

We shouldn't leave our guests alone.

I'll be right there.

Rosemarie, you lucky woman. Georg is a wonderful man.

Thanks.

I really do envy you. - Have a nice trip.

Thanks.

Come to the association meeting tomorrow.

Not as long as Franz Schober is chairman, Rudolf.

A donation would help the expellees. - Drive safely.

Waldtraut. - Georg.

None of the kids at my school have moms who work.

What about Resi Gruber?

But they're poor, so she has to.

I'll be back tomorrow. See you then.

Don't look at me. She's abandoning me too.

Come on.

CLARA ZETKIN STATE TEXTILE COMBINE EAST BERLIN

Did you eat the honey I brought you?

It was very good.

I'm feeling better already.

What did the factory doctor say?

Bronchitus. I see him again tomorrow.

I'll go with you.

What happened?

Gerd, look at this.

Someone put steel wool in the bearings.

Angermann, concentrate on your work!

The rest of you stop gawking. Back to work!

That's sabotage.

You think we're being sabotaged?

As you can see, everything is top quality.

Quality has never been an issue, Mr Hofmeister

The constant delivery difficulties are our problem.

It's acknowledged and we're on it.

Countess Striesow, this is our red product line.

And on the other side you'll see our blue product line.

Follow me, but don't get too close to the machines.

And finally, here, the jewel in our crown.

The new production hall.

Filled with modern machines. - And why aren't they running?

Just routine maintenance work.

You had delays delivering 20,OOO units.

How can you guarantee us you'll deliver 50,OOO on time?

We've had staff shortages in recent months.

We read the news. Skilled workers are fleeing East Germany.

Just guarantee us on-time delivery.

We're a mail-order company,

we send our customers merchandise, not excuses.

Mrs. von Striesow, can we discuss this in our conference room? Please.

This way.

Mrs von Striesow? Please excuse me.

Hilde Vöckler

Are you married to Georg von Striesow?

Yes. Why? - Hilde, what is it?

It's OK. - Sorry.

It's OK. - How is Georg?

How is Anna? Is she still happy with Friedrich?

Friedrich is dead.

Dead?

Back to work. Now. - That's no way to talk.

Is that any way to treat a comrade? - It's OK. You can go.

You're from Tannbach?

I lived there after the war

I'm looking for my son, Horst Vöckler

He was a POW with your husband. - Horst Vöckler

Your husband is the only one who might know where he is.

Please, I'm sick. I'd like to see him one last time, I...

Rosemarie, we... Pardon me. Please come.

I live at 14 Benarin Street.

Hilde, go for questioning.

Now she's in for it.

Let's see if she comes back.

Your colleague Sophia Angerbauer.. - Angermann.

She sits to my left.

Mrs Angermann said you left your workplace at the time in question.

That's correct.

I wasn't well.

And?

I went to the restroom.

I drank water Cooled myself down.

Then I came back.

And were you there alone?

Yes.

Leonhardt, Robert Leonhardt.

Do you frequently feel unwell during work?

No.

Why?

Your son, HorstVöckler, and your son's father, Franz Schober,

are both well-known Nazis.

What side are you on?

I'm no longer in contact with either of them.

But you probably know that too.

And I don't destroy machines. Who would benefit?

Any idea who might be interested in such an act of sabotage?

Of us women?

Nobody.

We'd only be harming ourselves if we lost our jobs here.

You can go.

This is a vey bad time.

If you're not coming to FranMuk.

Get in.

You vetted my wife vey carefully before we got married. Why now?

Three of our men were captured in the East.

One managed to escape.

So we know now they've cracked our code.

What's this got to do with my wife?

A lot.

She's from the East. Her whole family's there.

My daughter lives in the East too. Divided families are nothing unusual.

What about Rosemarie's brother?

What about him?

Did she ever mention him?

Of course.

And did she tell you he joined the East German Army?

She called it the sins of youth,

and said his best friend was shot.

The friend's name was Rüdiger

He was shot to death trying to flee.

Her brother, Kurt, was arrested for trying to desert.

That's no sin of youth.

It'll get you behind ban for a long time.

Shortly thereafter, his sister comes to Tannbach.

Why?

Because of me, of course.

You're rich, you're a count,

but you're also entrusted with confidential information.

Edwards, I'm no longer active. I've been scrapped.

You're even more paranoid about commies than I am.

What if we need you again?

You have an experienced fighter Use Horst Vöckler

I'm too old.

Colonel.

No screws, no spare parts.

Broken agricultural machinery.

We break our backs yet still have nothing!.

The bigwigs in Berlin live it up.

Like our good pastor with all his western luxuries.

He orders all the nice stuff from the Protestant Church in the West.

Now you know why his church is so full.

Because the coffee's good.

I go there too when I want real coffee. - That's a good reason.

We don't all wear crosses here, Anna.

And not everyone has a count for a father

What's your problem?

Have I done something to you? - Gerda, did you open that?

I don't care who knows what my father sends me.

You can all take something if you like.

Here, coffee. - Thanks.

It's really gone too far

There.

It's like Christmas.

Coffee.

The smell! - For you.

Chocolate.

Would you close the door?

THE HOLY BIBLE

Oh God!

Fabulous!

Now you can do some gilding.

Franz is paying for it all. To atone for all of his sins.

I'm not paying again.

You have to come, Comrade Hermann wants to talk to you.

Does he want a bribe too? - You have to come...

Don't touch me, Hubertus!

Come on, get in.

My word...

I don't care if she's over 65.

She can stay over there.

I said I didn't want her in the parsonage or anywhere else.

Why are you speaking as ifI weren't in the room?

She didn't cross at my post.

Why do I get the feeling you're in on this, Prantl?

I have a right to visit my cousin.

You have the right to get out and never come back.

That's your only right. Now get out.

You too, Prantl.

I thought Socialists were friendlier and more decent than on the other side.

Yes. - Goodbye!

Shut the door

Thank you. Goodbye.

Rosemarie! - Hello, sweetheart.

Rosemarie, look what I've caught.

What? - A frog.

A frog!

It has a really pretty skin pattern. - How pretty.

Look from the other side.

Does it already have a name? - No.

Don't let it out.

We weren't expecting you until later - Hello, Georg.

It's nice to be back home.

I met a woman in Berlin.

And?

Her name's Hilde Vöckler

Where did you meet her?

She works in a textile factory there.

And? Go on.

She's sick. I promised to help her

She wants to see her son again.

She's the mother of that Schober bastard, my wife's murderer

Are you out of your mind asking me that? - I...

Yes, I know. You didn't realize.

I felt sorry for her She was desperate. - Dammit.

Is there anyone in this county who isn't?

How naive are you anyway?

She's sick.

How sick?

I don't know.

Vey, I think.

Do you know anything about her son? Is he even still alive?

No, I don't.

MINISTRY FOR STATE SECURITY - EAST BERLIN

Yes.

Vöckler was seen in the Western sectors.

You're to stay on it, Colonel's orders.

So put it there.

WEDDING CERTInCATE

DOSSIER

I brought you the radio from Berlin.

Thanks.

I'm sorry.

I equated Hilde Vöckler with her son, that was unjust.

Hilde is a decent, brave woman, she always was.

I know you want nothing to do with her son, but ...

I made some calls. Horst is alive. You can tell her that.

If he wants to find her, then he will.

Thanks.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mr Fiedler Number seven.

And someone dropped this off for you earlier

Thanks.

Yes?

Good evening.

Good evening.

I wanted to ask how you were doing.

Good.

I...

I brought you something.

Your colleague Rita Freese says you like it.

It's real honey.

Thanks, but...

I don't want it.

Nor do I want to talk about my colleagues,

if that's the purpose of your visit.

I won't spy on them. No matter how much honey you bring me.

And now please excuse me. I'm cooking something.

You make me happy.

But I still wish I were different.

Don't you?

No.

I want to lead a normal life.

Not always have to hide.

I'd like to change many things about myself.

But loving you...

not that.

Mr Schober?

Yes?

You ordered tea. Without milk.

Just lemon. - No.

You must be mistaken. - No?

In that case...

sorry for the inconvenience.

Have a nice day.

Schober?

Couldn't you think of anything better?

Let's move to the East.

This isn't forbidden there.

I'm never setting foot over there.

You know that.

Never

It fits like a glove, right? - It looks good.

The round collar suits you too. Really.

I'd like hair this colour - Auburn would suit you too.

Why do you never come home anymore, Gustl?

Dad misses you.

Dad, Dad... I'll never be a farmer in this life.

And I'm not going to sell barbed wire either

But all that writing, it's not a solution either

Right, Mom, and what is? - Kathi!

Look what Rosemarie gave me!

You look very pretty, Cilly.

Great!

She brought this too. Look.

I'll leave all the patterns here.

My son, Gustl.

He's a reporter for the paper

Countess von Striesow.

I've heard a lot about you. - Nothing good if coming from your husband.

I heard you have a sharp tongue, Mr Schober

And I heard somewhere that the count

had gotten shamelessly lucky with his third wife.

May I ask how he won you over?

With his money, of course.

And you sell aprons?

I'll have wine.

Cilly, wine please.

Red or white? - Red.

Sure.

Comrade Hermann?

Did I hear there's no fresh fruit in the East?

You like raspberries, right? - I do.

Thank you.

And...

How is little Charlotte? - Good.

Better - Good.

Adolph, this isn't the best time.

Well, what a surprise.

Do you have the wrong address?

Hello, Pastor

Thanks for the berries. See you tomorrow, OK?

See you tomorrow.

Comrade Hermann. - Goodbye.

From Mother's garden. - Thank you.

Come on in.

You think they tried to kill you due to the secret army story?

I don't think it, I know it.

They rigged the brakes.

The CIA and the BND are burying weapons all over the woods.

Writing about it is treason.

If you don't believe me, ask your husband. - What's he got to do with it?

Why are you even telling me this?

You seem trustworthy.

Do I?

Yes.

Stasi, BND, CIA...

It sounds really exciting!

Hello, dear

So? How did Cilly like your aprons?

I met Gustav Schober

Pardon?

Georg, is there anything to the rumours about you?

What are you talking about? - You know very well.

That you're involved with the arms caches and the grenade

that killed Emil Schober a year ago.

Did that liar Schober tell you that?

He's not the only one.

I have a few questions too.

What do you know about my brother?

And who told you?

I'm not asking because I don't trust you. - Why then?

What does my brother have to do with me?

He's in prison and you act like I'm guilty. - No.

But I should know about him.

Is it you asking orAmerican and German intelligence?

Whom you helped bury arms? - Old army grenades caused the explosion.

Don't lie to me, Georg. Please!

So you believe that hack over your husband?

What about his accident?

Who cut his brake line? - We're in a war!

They're amassing arms right behind that border!

Without the Americans, the Soviets and their lackeys would already be here.

Why didn't you tell me about your brother?

Is it true he deserted?

E flat, Pastor? - C minor

The fanatics in Bonn drinking at the bar..

, "Careful, comrades

the Russians are coming!"

Now our little republic moving towards world peace.

"No one has any intention of building a wall."

You should've been a musician.

I once wanted to be. - Why didn't you?

The war

It changed us all, Mrs Erler

Anna.

Please, just Anna.

Wolfgang.

We're back! - Hello.

Hello, Felix. Hello, Kathrin. - Hello.

Hello. - I'm hungry.

Me too.

There are raspberries and cake on the table.

I'll show you out.

Goodbye. - Goodbye.

It was really lovely. Thank you.

No, I thank you.

Didn't you want to find baptism verses?

We did. - But Dad never wanted that.

What happens at a baptism?

The pastor reads from the bible and puts water on your head.

Mrs Vöckler?

This was dropped off for you.

By whom? - Don't know.

My husband accepted it. - Thanks.

MEn IN WEST BERLIN 18 KOCH STREET, TOMORROW 9AM, HORST

Good evening.

No honey this time. Don't be afraid.

I'm not afraid.

What do you want from me?

Just to talk.

Come in.

Nice place.

After all the shared housing for so long...

Do you like your work?

Better than the chemical kitchen I used to work in.

Now I sew 200 buttonholes every day.

And you?

Do you like your work?

I'm convinced I live in the better Germany, yes.

You didn't really want to bring me honey. - No.

I wanted to get to know you.

I shouldn't even be here,

but our state will have to endure that.

Our state.

This state has never treated me well.

Still, I haven't given up hope yet.

Maybe it'll achieve what we're all waiting for

Grass won't grow faster if you tug on it.

Really?

So that's why people work so slowly in the co-ops

and we have no fruit or veggies.

Our economic difficulties have to do with our open border with the West.

But... the choice is yours.

Do you really mean that?

The West with its fat cats, ex-Nazis and warmongers is no option for me.

And for you?

That would be too simple.

How easy it'd be if all the dissatisfied just went over

Got a coffee?

I wouldn't mind staying, if you don't mind my company.

All I have is substitute coffee.

You'd have to bring real coffee next time. - Mona or Rondo?

Check my file. I'm sure the answer is there.

Hello, Mother

I'm so glad to see you!

I don't have much time.

Where do you live?

What do you do?

Do you have a telephone?

Can I call you?

No.

You can't trust me, I understand.

I wanted to ask you for something. I...

I need pills.

That's why you wanted to see me?

No. I've always hoped to see you.

And now I'm...

happy you came.

You still have to book this.

What is this?

Those are baptism verses for my children.

Baptism verses?

"The most beautiful thing on this eakh is to love and to be loved."

That from the Bible? - It's Wilhelm Busch.

Sounds a bit like Goethe.

This one could be from the Bible.

"These are the things that ye shall do:

Speak ye every man the truth, execute true judgement

and peace in your gates.

So sayeth the Lord."

Well...

I hope the class enemy follows God's words.

Thank you. Now give that back.

The bosom of the church is wonderful, isn't it?

Or should I say Pastor Herder's bosom?

Pastor Herder holds this village together

He gives people hope. More than you and I do.

Socialism gives people hope, not a pastor or the church.

Or are you telling me we've failed? - No.

But I am saying we've made mistakes.

And I'm going back to the church. - You're not just anybody!

You head this cooperative with me

and you are responsible for lots of families.

I won't let you work on meeting our production quota by day

and pray to some wooden carpenter by night.

Do you understand?

Well, K3thi, what do you say?

Let's let the men cook today. - Oh heavens no!

You wouldn't want to eat what they brew up.

Have you heard? Cilly wants to give dancing classes.

Really?

We'll never get our men to do that.

The ongoing crisis over Berlin gives the West German Chancellor's visit'

particular importance.

The threats towards Berlin

have led to a new wave of refugees from the Soviet occupation 2one.

This weekend nearly 4,OOO

fled to West Berlin.

fearing that political developments

may lead to closure of all escape routes, they left all their belongings behind.

Christa!

Where are you coming from? - I ran away.

Please, Mother, help me. Don't send me back!

Did you fall?

They beat us.

They make us get the cane, then beat us.

Don't lie.

Those are all God-fearing women.

We can't talk, we can't sing.

They locked me in the gym for a week with a pee pot and no one to talk to!

Please no!

Please don't answer it. They're looking for me.

Please.

Heinrich!

She's your child too, Heinrich.

Mrs. Schober?

Yes.

A 16-year-old has been reported missing from a home.

A girl. We are told she's here with you.

My daughter is home and she's staying here!

Dear woman, we're not here for fun.

We were called.

Where do you think you're going?

Christa! - At this early hour!

Franz, let that child go!

Here you go.

It was you!

Go to hell.

The nuns will knock some sense into her

Those bonneted penguins know how to deal with children.

I was raised Catholic.

Did it do me any harm?

One day, Franz, you'll pay for this.

The Lord will punish you for your wickedness.

You'll have to swallow the poison you've given to others.

I swear it by all I hold dear

If it makes you feel better

Time to go. - Heinrich, you can't allow this!

She can come home when she learns manners. - Heinrich, please.

Christa!

Charlotte Felizitas Erler,

I baptize you in the name of the Father,

the Son,

and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Your baptism verse is,

"Blessed are the meek,

for they shall inherit the earth."

Oh, Felix. It wasn't that bad.

Two hours and three minutes. Two hours and three minutes too long.

And so boring! - Hello, everyone.

What do they say?

Happy baptism! - What do you want?

We have an urgent matter to discuss.

Can you take the little one for now?

Of course. We'll go on ahead.

It's important for you to know who baptized your children. Here.

A copy of Herder's file. - I won't read it.

Read it! - I don't want to.

It's important.

If we condemn everyone involved, we may as well condemn us all.

Including you, Adolph.

At least I haven't caused anyone's death.

Take some time to look at it and see what your saint did.

Ask him.

Anna.

I read it.

About David Brunner and his good friend Wolfgang Herder

The man who told the Gestapo where the Brunners were hiding,

and who, like so many others, will tell me he was only 19

and didn't know what they did to the Jews.

No, I won't.

So it's true?

Yes.

They came at six in the morning.

Four men, to our apartment.

They threatened to shoot my father if we didn't say where they were hiding.

So I told on them.

They shot my father anyway.

Not a day passes that I don't feel the guilt.

And I know no one can forgive me, least of all myself.

God, maybe.

Maybe not.

Where were you?

At church.

Dad said a church is like a bar You just go there to get numb.

You don't love Daddy anymore.

That's not true.

You see the pastor

and you're not sad anymore that Dad's dead.

Isn't shopping in West Berlin

against your class ideals, Comrade Leonhardt?

Indeed. At the biggest department store they have.

Can I ask you for something? - Better me than other people.

Which other people?

A delegation from the West, for instance.

Just to be questioned again? No thanks.

Brisket with horseradish.

I used to make it all the time when I had the guesthouse.

Will you join me?

Love to.

Here.

Our intelligence assumes the sabotage was just the beginning.

There'll be more to come.

Do you have a suspect?

Someone from the shop floor?

Not everyone in our agency thinks all the workers are innocent.

Perhaps it was me after all.

Perhaps.

It's insane, Robert.

No one trusts anyone. everyone is a commie or a Nazi in disguise.

That's no way to live.

No.

It's no way to live.

Lately, at work, I find myself wondering

if it's still in keeping with...

what I think.

everyone longs for freedom, including people over there.

But all it ever leads to is hostility.

Is it really all we know how to do?

Well done.

Anti-Soviet propaganda,

warmongering, illegal assembly.

We can lock him up for yean.

Use his mother to get him. You have cake blanche.

We can now decode radio transmissions.

He can provide useful information.

Smugglers, hidden arms depots. - We have others for that.

We're going to show him the reach of the working class.

They aren't close enough yet for us to use her as a decoy.

I want him, period.

It would destroy five yean of work.

It's an order, comrade.

So you sew 200 buttonholes a day.

Does that meet their quota or yours?

I'm fine.

It makes ends meet, it's fine.

But let's not talk about me. Tell me about you.

Do you work here in Berlin?

No.

You don't want to tell me what you do?

No.

You have pneumonia.

If the antibiotics don't help, you'll die.

But they will.

Get him?

No.

Horst, I know I wasn't a good mother

I wish I could turn back time and...

right my wrongs.

I'm truly glad I can tell you this now.

I'm in Berlin because I met someone.

How nice.

We meet here once a month.

Does she make you happy? Tell me about her

How long have you known her?

Just over six months.

And is it serious?

He is my true love.

He?

Yes.

You love a man?

Yes.

Oh, my child.

See you tomorrow. - Bye-bye.

Pastor! Come over here.

Have a drink with me.

Lisa!

Put two more on my tab.

Comrade Hermann. - Come on.

Sit down.

Pastor

Here you go. - Thanks.

Let's drink to our victory over capitalism.

Cheers!

You know what your church doesn't understand?

Those of us who live in socialism

already have heaven on earth.

Heaven on earth?

Then can you explain why they're fleeing this paradise in droves?

To be honest,

I can't.

And I don't understand it either

But you...

you could keep them here.

Says my esteemed colleague.

"Pastor Herder," she says,

"he could save socialism.

He can give people hope that things will eventually get better"

She said that?

Anna thinks you're greater than Marx.

You, the saviour of the working classes.

Until you gave her my file.

Come on.

As a Christian, you have no problem with guilt.

The Lord in heaven forgives all.

But it's true...

Women...

Unfortunately, women never forgive.

I'm glad Anna knows the truth, Comrade Hermann.

I'm actually grateful to you.

Have a nice day.

I wanted to say goodbye.

I'm going to Berlin.

Colonel Edwards, my wife.

We were just talking about Berlin.

Tell her how dangerous the East sector is.

Too many people are leaving via Berlin. They'll plug that leak soon.

The Americans will defend Berlin.

Berlin is the free world.

There are two Berlins, and one isn't ours.

I'll be back in two days. Goodbye.

As you saw for yourself, our workers make a quality product.

And they are proud of that. - Theoretically.

But clothes labeled "state-owned enterprise" don't sell.

You want us to disavow our good work?

Come on, don't exaggerate, my good man.

We produce quality.

The world should know.

Our customers don't want to wear class struggle .

"Made in Germany,"

not "state-owned enterprise Clara Zetkin."

We would appreciate that. - Made in Germany!

Pardon me a moment.

Mrs Vöckler?

Were you able to see your son?

Yes.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Rita!

That's insane!

What are you doing? - Leave me be!

You could face the death penalty! - I don't care!

What's going on? - Not again.

Come on.

This way.

Go to the West. You're too young to die. - What about you?

Get going!

All workers into the cafeteria.

All workers to the cafeteria.

No one leaves the grounds.

Arrest her!

Go.

This is absurd. How long do you plan on detaining us?

There'll be consequences, Mr Hofmeister

I demand we be allowed to leave!

What do we have to do with the power outage?

It's part of a planned economy, like Ulbricht's goatee.

We're West German citizens and I object to...

I couldn't care less.

Well, I... - Mrs von Striesow.

You were observed talking to an employee.

Countess von Striesow.

It was personal.

Real socialism surely still allows that.

If that personal matter

ruins millions in state-owned property

and puts hundreds of people out of work,

then it certainly is our business, Countess.

Stand still.

Face to the wall.

STOP! BORDER

Stop. No passing through here.

Back up.

Papen, please.

Let him through.

Sabotage? My wife?

That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.

It must be a mistake. - Then get your friends in Bonn on it!

Alright.

Let's go.

You can go.

What kind of a charade is this?

Major

Mrs Vöckler is innocent and ill. I helped her to see her son, that's all.

I know.

Then it was just another show of power?

You'll be released in the next 24 hours.

No matter what action your husband takes.

When will my brother be released?

In eight years, when he's done his time.

And if we buy his freedom?

So, you too now think money is above the law?

Money is the law, and nothing else.

When you close the border you'll need western money more than ever

Then you'll think it over

Has the count turned you?

You know my convictions, Comrade Major

everyone fights dirty, yes.

You've made it far, Comrade Czerni. Oh, I'm sorry.

Countess von Striesow.

Watch your mouth, the war's far from over

The Ulbricht regime's measures,

which were initiated at the behest of the Warsaw Pact states

to seal off the Soviet zone From West Berlin,

are a flagrant breach of justice.

Look at that.

Those red skunks.

Can you believe it!

Go on, shake your head all you can.

Cheers!

Your hands.

Were you an accomplice?

Hilde, these are criminals

out to destroy our socialist economy, you know that as well as I do.

Are you really surprised so many feel cheated out of a future?

Who do we work for? For the class enemy.

Western profiteers. - Once the initial problems...

How much longer? You burn all who still believe in you.

We arrested Rita Freese and Karl Rohwedder Neither's talking. Were you the third?

You should talk to me.

Tonight at midnight we undertook extensive border security measures.

You're building a wall.

You really think it'll get better if you lock us up.

Robert, you said if I need something I should ask.

Now I really am asking you for help.

Let me go, just this one day.

Why?

For me to help you, you have to tell me the truth.

I want to see my son one more time.

I know you're looking for him. I may be making a mistake.

Don't exploit my honesty, Robert.

This may be the last time I see him. - Where?

In the West.

I've already...

betrayed my son once.

I won't survive doing it again.

ID, please.

Vöckler, Hilde.

Yes, got it.

Here.

Open up.

Berlin is sealed off, how'd you get through?

A friend helped me.

Who?

Mother I have to know. Who?

Robert Leonhardt.

Robert Leonhardt? He works for the Stasi.

Yes, but he promised... - You're a decoy.

No, I'm here alone.

You betrayed me again.

Horst Vöckler

Go!

We have to get out of here. Hurry.

I'm never going back.

Stay here with me.

Please.

Major

Vöckler shot him.

Don't forget the ID.

Horst Vöckler?

Vice Squad.

You're under arrest for violating Paragraph 148.

You've been reported.

For engaging in unnatural acts.

U.S. presidentJohn f. Kennedy says,

"The immediate threat to freedom of man is in West Berlin.

But this isolated outpost is not an isolated problem.

The threat is worldwide.

Our effoR must be equally broad and effective,

and not..."

Kennedy is actually going to stick with it.

It's better to have a wall than a war

What's wrong with that?

Well, I won't set foot in Berlin again.

Neither will you, Rosemarie.

Excuse me?

This time I got you out with luck and my connections.

That's why there won't be a next time.

I won't give up my job, if that's what you mean.

But you will give up your trips to the Soviet zone.

Relations will be put on ice now anyway.

My wife won't do business with Communists, period.

Are you going to terminate my contract?

Georg.

I need my wife here now.

With me, with my child.

Not in a Stasi prison.

You have no right to decide for me.

We're married. Of course I do.

Right, I have to go back to the office.

Hello.

High time for us to take a stand.

The back and forth has to end.

Anybody who's not with us now, is against us.

Now then.

Anna!

Why don't you answer?

Haven't you forgiven him?

We need protection from that type.

He's your father - He's a warmonger and capitalist.

We have to keep them off our backs.

And risk war? Destroy families?

Lock up an entire population?

What are you talking about, Anna?

Does this make you a better person?

Is this socialist liberation?

We're doing the right thing.