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DIE MAUER - THE LAST DAYS OF THE BERLIN WALL

How many of us were at home during the events of the winter of 1989/1990, when the Berlin Wall saw its last days and East Germany was opened to the West, but wished we could have been there in person to see it all?  Well, now you can "re-live" what you couldn't be there to see:  this color DVD has no narration and none is needed.  It shows tourists hacking away at the Wall with sledgehammers and picks; it brings us down into the closed subway station at Potsdamer Platz where Vopos patrol empty platforms as subway cars from West Berlin swing by and relics of the early 60s collect mold and rot in the abandoned caverns; it shows newscrews filming the demise of the DDR and foreigners photographing Volkspolizei in the death strip between the two walls; it shows East Berlin at night and people partying atop and at the Wall as fireworks illuminate the sky.  You would think a 96-minute film with no narration and no real action would bore; but it does not ... it is both exhilirating and melancholy; a confirmation of all that is good in people and a reflection on the years and materials wasted in walling in a people. 

REGION FREE (will play in any DVD player).

DVD-R HAS EXCELLENT FILM QUALITY.  APPROX. 96 MINS. 

 

IMPORTANT:  This film is included in our 4 DVD set, "Die DDR ruft".  If you have already bought that set, this will be a dupe film.  If not, maybe you should consider our 4 DVD set instead?! :-)