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No problems at all,
What are you doing?
An application for party admittance?
Which one do you want to join?
You've got only one party here.
My daughter in the party? Never. That's out of the question.
- Is she supposed to fail her entire life? - Georg is in the party, too.
Did I fail my entire life?
You know, the Communist ManiFEST is not a FESTival.
I know that. What's he mean?
Leave her alone. You better think of what you're going to say tomorrow at school.
- I'm not going to the Army for three years. That's insane. - I assume you don't want to study in Moscow?
A degree from Moscow is very prestigious here.
What did you just say?
The boy should either study in Oxford or Sorbon.
Only mental cripples go to Russian schools.
Sit down and be excited. You probably had a lot problems with those.
Do you know who you are? You're nothing but a troublemaker and inciter.
What's going to happen to you if I go away?
Where are you going?
I don't know,
What is she trying to say? Nobody's ever getting out of here.
How come? We often go to Turinge. Who was the first to be on the Moon?
- Leica. - Camera?
- Dog. - We're not talking about dogs here.
- You came from the rotten West. - From Germany.
I've already explained that to you.
- All of us live in Germany. - I disagree.
We're all German.
Do you want to serve our national army for three years?
I guess that's clear, Misha?
In such moments one feels so lonely.
Yes.
So now, tell me, in which countries do children feel very bad?
In America, France, Scandinavia,,,
We've got to learn how to talk to the girls.
I can't see any problem with that.
Wuschel is going to teach us.
Give me a break. I'm too young.
Excuse me, young lady...
Can you tell us...
Let me show you.
There's a disco in our school and with the help of my friends...
Where's the Sun Alley one?
Actually I don't really know my way around here
but it's seventeen over there so...
I won't let you have fun of me.
With the help of my friends we wanted...
You dig her and you don't have the slightest idea what to say?
- What did you tell her? - The usual.
She's not going to the disco?
She doesn't have the time.
Here's the last chance,
- Michael, your turn. - Why don't we do it later?
Not those witches from school again...
Let's get this party going!
- What horrible music. - Can't I bring my own records?
Everything needs to clear out tonight.
Your glasses...
Wanna dance?
Excuse me?
Do you want to dance?
Can't you see I'm smoking?
Whose red Ford Taurus has got plate number RES 538?
Mine,
Follow me, please,
Well, at least he tried.
Are you coming or not?
If that jerk played "The Stones", he would have closed the deal.
Who let the class enemy into the school?
Leave this place, please!
You can do everything in the West. See you.
- It was Miriam, - I can see that,
- Please. - Ciao, Bella.
You'll be giving a speech about your behaviour at the next FDJ meeting.
Miriam and a guy from the West. A kiss does not mean anything.
I've got to think of something.
My kids collected recyclable materials worth 130 DM.
Mine collected more than 200.
Together we exceeded the average.
I painted sunflowers for Angela Davis.
We're so proud of you.
Think of how many sunflowers were collected in the whole country.
We'll free our friend Angela for sure.
I used to have such a canvasser,
Watch out, she's coming.
Hello,
Why do you all look so confused,
We aren't in the parliament.
Sit down.
Today we're going to discuss...
Thank you.
THE PARTY IS THE *** OF THE LABOR CLASS
Who did that? Franziska?
- Mario. - Of course.
It's so sad to see you behave like a class enemy
and to see that you have absolutely no respect fo our nation
which - under the guidance of the labor class...
Yes, Misha...What do you think about it?
I did it,
You did?
I'm so disappointed in you,
Misha should be punished as well, don't you think, friends?
I'll deliver a lecture about my actions at the next FDJ meeting.
That sounds like a proper punishment
although it's actually an honor for you.
Mario, you've been redeemed.
Where's my Kamil?
I'm practicing my act, all for Miriam.
That's Sabina's new boyfriend. He works in a theatre.
Be serious. You're going to play Lucile in the school theatre.
Being an actor is no game,
you've got to treat it seriously.
You'd need to be really sick, then you get a telephone.
Make a complaint,
- You need to have diabetes. - I can get some sugar.
- He meant people suffering from diabetes. - I can't smuggle that.
Dear friends,
The leading role and meaning of a labor party...
...or have a paralyzed child, like the Meisners.
Your neighbor works for the undercover police and also has a phone.
- How come you know where he works? - Because he has a phone.
- Then why doesn't he hang out the flag? - Because he works for the undercover police.
But you do hang out the flag.
I'm trying to explain to you that he works for the undercover police.
What can we do about it?
- Do you have to hang out the flag? - That's what I was talking about.
Party... labor class...
Could you please stop for a while?
You have to behave like Saint Juices at the moment of Danton's death
and show to everyone how you're feeling deep inside.
Or like Brutus:
Rome, citizens, friendship,
There's no proper acoustics but,,,
Dear friends...
- What's going on here? - What are you asking?
- Why do you look like that? - Yeah.
And just how do you look like?
It's just an experiment.
If I were you I would be happy to have the opportunity to look at her at this age.
You've got asbestos here everywhere.
Enough of the problems of the revolution, now for my personal after-thoughts.
Every member of the FDJ has got to have pride.
I'm sure that if my very own boyfriend -
though I have to admit I have none at the moment -
had gone to the Army for three years, I would have been loyal to him.
I promise,
We'd like to thank our friend, Miriam Sommer for her speech.
Do you have any questions?
I've had enough of Lenin...
the party and the labor class.
I never cheated anyone about that and I landed in some...
real problems,
Today we have a guest from socialist republic of Vietnam, Ling Weng
who's going to deliver a speech about the American aggressor.
God dey, comerades...
I doo no speek god Germanish, only Vietnamese...
Tank you match.
Let's thank Ling Weng for her speech
and let's listen to Michael Ehrenreich.
Dear friends,
The enormous role of social ideology, labor and party theorists
is unquestionable today.
Marks, Engels, Lenin and... the love.
You're talking as if she got undressed only for you back there.
You're going to get addicted to the woman first, and then to the system.
How come you know she doesn't have a boyfriend?
She said herself that even if she had had one, but she doesn't, don't you get it?
You are such a fool.
- Give me a kiss. - Better not.
- Just good-bye. - No.
Why are you so happy?
Just take a look what he is wearing.
Soon I'll be going to the Army for three years and then I'm going to blow all of you away.
So, let's go back now.
Your identity card.
Not him again.
Something must have happened... but what?
I'm watching you, Ehrenreich. Do it one more time and you'll be dead meat.
And now for the latest hit
from your Sergeant Hokerfeld.
Strictly forbidden!
- Have a good day, Mr. Seargent Major. - Seargent! Now get out!
You can buy everything that is forbidden at the black market.
You can get everything there.
He looks scary.
That's a dealer. He deals records.
I need something unique. "Tangerine Dreams".
For my happening.
Bravo,
- With Alice Cooper's poster? - 20 DM.
Why so expensive?
- Do you have naked ladies? - They're down the street.
Let's go.
- Wuschel, your turn. - I'm not going anywhere.
Don't be scared,
- And? - Next time.
I can't do business here,
Hessego vs. Sartre.
- I think I overrated you. - Wait.
- Saturday Night Fever? - I don't do disco music.
What about Kate Bush?
- Wow-Album? - Right.
Terrible wailing. Get lost. Next.
Original release of "Exile on Mainstreet".
Sure it's original. Ever thought I was selling crap?
Have you ever read Sartre?
You bet, he's great.
We could discuss that.
I'll leave you alone.
Here you go.
I've been waiting for this moment my whole life.
Originally packed.
- How much? - 25.
I'd have to work three months for that,
The Stones recorded this album in two months.
Go listen to Zappa.
If it wasn't Brian Jones you would simply forget about the Stones.
I had it in my hands but I didn't have enough money.
Be it weeks or months, eventually you'll buy it.
Where's Mario?
- For instance let's take Hesse,,, - That's pure insanity.,
- Hesse is metaphysical, esoteric... - Exactly.
For example "Steppenwolf"',
Steppenwolf is good. "Born to be wild".
That's a song, and "Steppenwol" is a rock band.
You will never be free unless you free the others.
Do you understand what I'm saying? What Jean meant?
Who?
Jean Paul.
Sartre.
You will never be free...
until you free the others. Now do you get it?
So you're going to shoot somebody now, are you, you fools?
That's our neighbor from the security forces.
- Good evening, did I disturb you? - No.
- I wanted to ask you about something. - Good evening, Mr. Fromm.
- Where do you actually work? - We'll talk about it some other time.
The reason I'm asking you this is because of your irregular working hours...
Misha, come home, Don't disturb that man,
- Your son is just curious. - He wants to study in Moscow.
The wall must go down.
That's my senile uncle from the West.
Could you lend me two blankets of yours for our guests who came to the youth congress?
- I'll see what I can do. - We've brought a few people to put up.
We have to support FDJ.
Now wasn't that clever?
I bet he's writing a report about us to his leading officer.
What are you doing?
Why are you whistling?
This world is crazy.
I don't want to be buried here,
It can always be worse.
What is actually going on in here?
You're no longer wearing your glasses... And who's that?
- That's Uwe, my fiancee. - Your fiancee!?
Good day.
He's a catholic and he's been to the seminary.
I'd always dreamt of being a grandmother.
I no longer want to and I'm fed up with all of this.
I can't take it any more.
That's for Boris,
A phone.
You can even find us in a phone book.
Thanks God,
God had nothing to do with that. It was a doctor, not him.
I got a testimonial that I'm seriously ill.
That I suffer from epilepsy, There is some truth in this,
Shut up.
Who knows our number?
It's in a phone book, It's quite voluminous,
What now?
You've got to pick up the phone.
But be careful, very careful!
Don't worry.
Ehrenreich family's residence here.
Misha, it's for you.
Miriam?
- I didn't expect it'd be for you, - Don't confuse him,
- Ask him whether she can hear you clearly. - From a phone book?
He's got a girlfriend. What's her voice like?
- Dad, stop it. - Can she hear you well?
I'll call back in a sec,
Bring her here!
- The best form of attack is defense. - Ask her whether she could hear you clearly.
Don't make an *** out of yourself.
Damn, Eastern ***,
Not at the border neighborhood.
- A spy? - Fugitive.
Cheers.
Just you wait.
Here comes another one. It's going to get exciting.
Miriam... I couldn't talk,
I'm in the phone booth right under your window.
- Come to me. - What?
I'm coming.
Your identity card.
Wait, I'll bring it.
An identity card is a document you always have to carry.
Whoever does not have it at the border neighborhood
is to be brought to the station for identification purpose.
- Arrest him. - He should be shot.
I've warned you, Ehrenreich.
For a minute I've felt as if I was a real artist.
Mario... did you like it?
Do you think Sartre had exactly this on his mind?
Sure, he's a Frenchman.
You have a point.
My shoes are all wet.
So after ten hours, my mother finally came for me.
For me you're a hero.
Oh, spare the words.
I've been thinking about Miriam the entire time, and thanks to that, it was easier for me.
I can understand.
I can think about her all day long, it's a wonderful feeling.
Just like with that Stones' album.
I guess it's kind of different.
That's Sabrina,
- We're both keen on art. - We're together.
- Are you getting addicted to the system? - What?
We've had a tiny row. That's something completely different.
- Do you want to get married? - What are you talking about?
My parents are going out tomorrow and I'd like to have a party.
I'll bring some drugs along.
Where are you going to get them from?
From the drug store.
I've got to go.
Is your sister home?
She was waiting for you yesterday.
It was a political matter. I'd like to invite her to a party, here's the address.
These are asthmatic drugs but we make drugs out of them.
I've got a question. What's inside?
Datura, horsetail and deadly nightshade.
We put everything into a glass...
We want to see Sabrina. Damn her, she's got a real house.
And now we add some cola.
This is Birgit. We're lesbians.
You've got a problem?
- Did you bring some vinyls? - I'm not working here.
- Is it tasty? - That's not what it's for.
You're right.
Careful, these are antique instruments.
If something happens to them, my father is going to be really pissed off.
Is Miriam home?
No, but go to the kitchen. Sabrina will serve you the drugs.
Whipsters.
What did you say?
Can't you smoke on the balcony? My father will be angry.
- Hey, is that for your mom? - What?
- Aren't your parents home? - If they were, we would be having a party.
- I need a room for my happening. - What?
- This one is ideal. - Are you Sabrina's friend too?
Now for the drinking. What's crucial is that you have to drink it all at once.
Cheers.
What's the problem?
I don't know if I should... Miriam's coming soon.
You're going to feel relaxed.
It's really nice in here.
- Did you like that blonde? - I didn't say anything like that.
I saw a glare in your eyes.
Can you feel anything?
No... you?
Nothing.
I'll go to the balcony.
I was looking for you.
There's got to be a bathroom somewhere here.
Damn, I'm getting a pimple...
and Miriam has not come yet.
Can you feel anything?
No. I'll check at the balcony whether Miriam's coming.
Do you think she's going to come?
It's time for a protest,
Urine knows no limits.
That's Miriam,
She's coming.
What am I going to do about that damn pimple?
I've got to think of something.
Let's rise to the heavens,
I can see double,
Everybody's gone mad.
It's superb,
Hi, Misha,
Make a squaw out of her,
That's my work of art.
I had some balance issues but they're gone.
I'm fed up with your babbling,
I can really understand the reason you did not want to stay there.
We're so similar to each other. I can feel exactly what you feel.
As the years passed, I used to write all my reflections into countless diaries.
And suddenly you emerge, out of nowhere, thinking exactly the same way I do.
- I'd love to read them. - What?
Those countless diaries,
There are times everything is against you.
I'll talk to the head-master myself.
Sure.
She really likes me.
- I wouldn't utter a word anyway. - Let me speak.
I don't feel well,
A visit from the Safety Department.
My duties include reading enemy newspapers on a daily basis.
There are worse things.
You will never be free unless you free the others. That's what Sartre used to say.
Now he's an existentialist, is he?
The toilet clogged. We had to pee somewhere, didn't we?
Besides, hostile newspapers lie, you read it every day.
That must be some sort of a trap,
We've made a mistake and we're asking for your forgiveness.
Right? Can't you see?
We did apologize.
You peed on our antifascist wall, you peed on our country
where Ernest Halmann comes from, not to mention thousands of his comrades.
You have not shown respect to graves of those
thanks to whom you can live and learn
in a free country.
Mario Naujoks is no longer a student of our school.
Get out of my sight.
And you, Ehrenreich... are getting a reprimand.
Leave!
Back then Mario was experiencing the best moments of his life.
He was getting the taste of freedom with Sabrina.
They were always on the road
and it actually didn't matter to them
that their motorcycle was so slow.
Hi, Misha,
Remember I asked you to lend me your diaries?
Well, first I have to find them all,
especially those from the childhood.
I'm waiting.
- Are you sick? - Give me a break, I've got lots to do.
Need a hand?
I don't want anyone to disturb me.
- Good day, I'm Olaf from Drezno. - I'm Udo.
Our guests are here.
I'm Olaf from Drezno, I came to the youth congress.
- That's our new tenant. - We're from the same union.
He's quite pale. Aren't you afraid to live so close to the border?
Here's the kitchen,
Good day, I'm Olaf from Drezno.
These are our tenants. Register in the registration book, please.
Western TV.
Dear diary.
At last I can write about everything I think, now that I know the alphabet.
Today I learnt how to draw the letter H and I can write a very important word
that I use very often:
***.
The player has to recognize objects, on the tape.
If she manages to do so, she's allowed to take them home.
Seriously?
She failed again.
A cafe express, globe...
I turned 14 today and I was given my first identity card.
Starting from today I'm a number...
A number... yes, a number.
A personal distinctive number...
of a system... of an inhuman system.
Great.
I turned 14,
It actually receives three channels.
We don't have that.
- I'm going to watch it til the end. - Ditto.
Move, please,
What is it?
What are you waiting for?
We don't want to spend the night on the border.
I'm going to sleep.
Now I'm going to write about the country I live in.
- I haven't done anything. - Let's go.
Follow me, please,
Of course.
I suspect you of something,
Do you know what one can be suspected of when he or she visits us so often?
Of course, that you are a friend of our system.
Here, hi-fi, Japan.
Someone tried to smuggle it but you can't play tricks on us.
What do you think?
Have a closer look, it's very complex.
Here's our good ol' radio:
It's got a switch,
a speaker,
plastic casing, tones controller.
It takes too much space,
Absolutely unnecessary.
I'm sorry but you can get cancer, using it -
you've got asbestos everywhere in here.
In the West they say that you can get cancer from those fillings as well.
And, actually, I've never had one.
While we're building socialism, they're afraid of cancer
and build radios that they even don't know how to use.
They're bound to lose.
Everything is so gray.
Like ashes,
This country hurts you like a shoe that's too small.
You can't move in it, it's only dreams that you're left with.
Maybe I should try to escape?
At last. Nobody's going to take it away from me.
No wonder everybody ran away from here, and everybody that stayed dreams of escaping,
and if somebody does not then he's going to do so soon.
Two systems.
I decided to flee to the West,
Darkness,
Increased risk of decampment. Alert.
I saw a light at the end of the tunnel.
Shoot the flares.
You're going to leave me alone here?
Or our baby?
Yes, Sir, increased readiness.
I was terrified by fear
when I gazed into the barrels of soviet machine-guns.
Wuschel, what's wrong with you?
Say something.
It's broken,
Both of them,,,
It was a double album,
I'm waiting for something that is never going to take place.
I decided to find a resistance group which would consist of my friends
who knew what life was all about and who take it seriously.
Disobeying orders! Do you know what it means?
Yes.
We'll show you the dictatorship of the proletariat.
- I already know it. - That's what you think.
I'm happy to see you, comrade Gumprecht.
Mario?
What are you doing here?
Here you are.
We've been waiting for you.
I was put through too much,
I had a muck past. I had no work,
and I'm going to be a father soon.
It was you who said you needed to mix everything from the inside.
Who's that Suzi?
Suddenly you become an adult, partings and misfortunes multiply.
I yearn whole-heartedly.
Just imagine, Mr. Fromm works for a funeral company.
- Uncle Heine's dead. - He died of cancer.
Poor dear,
Can I?
He's going to be so alone in that wooden box.
You're going to be let go. He's your brother, for God's Sake - first generation kinship.
Had he lived here, he could have lied next to our mom,
I whole-heartedly yearn.
He was a good man, a friend of our system.
My mother finally found herself in the Golden West.
Just coffee.
I appreciate your sincerity.
but we are not going to hassle you about a coffee can.
I'm back,
I thought that I was going to wash my socks to the end of my life.
I'm telling you, it's so colorful there. Here's a surprise - I smuggled it for you.
Coffee is quite legal. I didn't even have to smuggle it.
Wasn't there any other?
Take a peek inside.
That's not a coffee!
No - that's uncle Heinz!
You smuggled uncle Heinz?
Without any formalities. He fit right in.
He's become kind of small,
Here we come
Can I help you?
No, I'm fine.
- Is your sister home? - How do I know?
- Can you go bring her here? - Go by yourself.
Here's my life, lying under your feet.
50 DM. Is that enough?
Sure.
I don't want to go to Siberia.
50 Western is equal to 250 Eastern.
Thank you, God.
And I thought that those from the West were better at kissing.
I'll show you how you inspect cars. You say: Open the trunk.
When he does you look right inside and... Comrade Orlowski, please come here.
Alarm.
Combat alert!
Sometimes there are moments where luck is completely on your side.
I work at the hotel...please!
I only park the cars.
Look, I bought it for 150 DM.
Men need music!
Take a look at this,
Stones' maiden album.
- Is that Keith's guitar? - It's coming in a minute.
No it's no! ***, this can't be the Stones!
Pay attention.
What a great solo.
A sensational Stones' song that no one has heard yet.
***!
That's so not true!
That *** lied to me! He stuck fake labels on!
***. Let me show you.
These are the Stones. Unreleased songs.
We're the first to hear them.
They're forbidden.
Come on! We're hitting the road!
Comrade Lieutenant,
Something's happening on the balcony on the second floor in the border neighborhood zone.
A proper evaluation of the situation is not possible.
What are you saying to this net?
I'm not talking to my bag, lady.
Are they allowed to do that?
Well... We can't do a thing.
There used to be a country that I lived in.
If you asked me how it was: It was the greatest time of my life
because I was young and in love.
STARRING
Your identity card.
You've got asbestos everywhere here.
It seems to me that you've got some questions.
I've thought exactly the same thing.
We've got to talk.
Get lost, ***.
I whole-heartedly yearn.
Rome, citizens, friendship,
Be always prepared!
[English subtitles: TML Group]
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