"HEIMAT 3" " A CHRONICLE OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS" "A SIX-PART FILM B Y EDGAR REITZ" "PART TWO - THE CHAMPIONS" "Hey, isn't that Ernst?" "That's not Ernst" "Ernst is earnest and learning to fly" "What a clown!" "What's he doing?" "Watch out!" "Tobi!" "Tobi!" "He wants to tell you something" "Higher!" "It won't go any higher" "Up and away!" "To the sky!" "To the moon!" "Come on!" "Are you mad?" "It won't go any higher" "Can't you get it up any higher?" "No wonder his wife ran off" "Udo!" "Careful!" "I really shouldn't show it to anybody, not even you" "The best is yet to come" "Nice, isn't it?" "Forget the stupid Matterhorn, but look at the back" "Look what's showing through" "It was painted over" "You bet" "Not with your spit" "The missing Gypsy Boy, painted by Otto Müller" "And I smelled the rat" "I knew that it was in Vilnius under a coat of tempera" "I've wanted it for thirty-five years" "Can you imagine, Tobi?" "How did you do it?" "Would you like to know?" "Missing expressionist paintings, Tobi, do you realise what this is?" "This is a Heckel" "Yes, and this one, too" "Probably I'm not certain" "The signature is missing" "What the Nazis called "degenerate art" was tossed about and it ended up in a Lithuanian cellar" "It survived forty years of socialism" "Tobi, promise me that you won't tell a soul about my collection" "Sure, but why not?" "We're in Hunsrück, for God's sake!" "Envy, resentment, rumours, ignorance..." "Don't look at me like that" "FRIDAY 8 JUNE 1 990" " FIRST DAY OF THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP" "Hermann!" "Lena" "It's as pretty as a picture" "Yes, really pretty" "I'll give you a hand" "All the windows and beams, and being directly on the Rhine..." "It's so much nicer here than where we live" "It's always windy in Hunsrück" "Spring comes weeks later and winter comes four weeks earlier" "Put the plates on the table" "Hermann, you did the right thing" "You two went to a lot of trouble" "You can stay here forever" "And all the grapevines everywhere..." "Hello, sweetheart" "This is great" "I didn't recognise you" "We have a new car" "This is our car" "We must go and get the kids" "Hi, sweetheart" "Gunnar, what are you doing?" "That's high-tech stuff!" "What a nutcase!" "Hello" "What's this?" "Nothing's broken" "Explain this" "That's a new car" "They kept us waiting two hours" "Two hours?" "Do you know why?" "Jana picked up the car at the factory in Cologne" "A nice blue" "They aren't used to people paying cash" "It saved seven hundred marks in transportation costs" "It makes a difference" "Congratulations, Udo" "Hey, Gunnar the car can get up the hill in fourth gear" "Hello" "I'm happy for you, Great car" "Hi there, that car's keeping you busy, young man" "Hello, you look really well" "Tell me, is that all real?" "I would like four croissants, please" "You speak French!" "Yes, after two weeks in Brittany" "Give me your hand" "And the pretty garden..." "They have done a good job" "Reinhold, upstairs" "You can lay her on the bed" "What a house" "It's just perfect" "CIarissa!" "Everybody's here" "Gunnar is still up on the roof" "I'll check on him" "Careful, the ladder" "Can we help?" "No, I can do it on my own" "Mrs Lichtblau!" "We're all downstairs" "Yes" "We need an aerial to watch the game" "It doesn't matter" "You will impress us all including Petra if you just act normal" "Why is she here?" "Why can't she come another day, if she has to come?" "Come on, we're getting a bonus" "I'm impressed you went up there" "It was nothing" "Hermann and CIarissa are handing out bonuses" "Let's have a look" "He shouldn't make a fuss" "Udo" "Tillmann" "It was hard without him" "But let's put it this way, it was worth it" "Tillmann, would you mind..." "It won't take long" "Gunnar" "Just after the Berlin Wall came down and you started to clean up the house everyone was negative" "The experts expected it to take two years and people doubted whether the house could even be restored" "Now, less than seven months later the house is a showpiece for the entire region" "And we owe that mainly to you" "Gunnar, here you are" "Udo" "Thanks" "Tillmann" "Thank you" "And where is Tobi?" "Where's Tobi?" "It's more than I thought" "What was that?" "In the vineyard" "Watch out!" "Someone's shooting!" "Damn it!" "I missed!" "CIarissa!" "Mrs Lichtblau!" "Move out of the way!" "What are you doing?" "Mr Wallauer!" "For heaven's sake" "Put that away" "It's been eating the new shoots on the vines for weeks" "It's caused lots of damage, and nobody knows who it belongs to" "That's no reason to shoot" "What about the shed?" "Good idea" "Having a goat could mean cheese, milk and butter for you and Mr Simon" "And a kid a year" "Or two" "Goat's meat isn't very popular" "Don't, Udo!" "You couldn't do that to a poor animal" "No, but I could eat you" "I've always wanted animals" "Don't fool yourself" "Calm down" "Don't go into the vineyard, or Mr Wallauer will shoot you" "What you've done here is a miracle" "Congratulations, I mean it from the heart" "Pitt has a case of my wine on his tractor" "It's from 1 984, the year I first saw you here, Mrs Lichtblau" "please, stay for the party" "It all started with you" "Not so loud!" "The kids are sleeping upstairs" "Can you play anything?" "Not bad, And you?" "That's nice of you, Be careful" "Watch out!" "Can I help?" "I'll just get changed, Udo" "OK" "Daddy, we've got a goat" "Arnold?" "PRIVATE" "Arnold!" "Celebrate with us" "It's a big day for us" "I don't know them" "I'll introduce you" "I want to study" "You will pass your exams easily judging by your coursework" "I'm not interested" "I miss you when you hide up here" "You just want to show me off" ""He's brilliant"" ""He will study IT in America and he was acquitted for being nice"" "I hate it!" "Don't exaggerate" "I'm just proud of you" "Yes, but I am who I am!" "I don't care, lt gets on my nerves" "Take your time" "I'm not that quick, anyway" "Thank you, Mara" "You're the best" "Hermann..." "Well done!" "Hello, Anton" "Hermann" "Anton!" "Careful!" "Nice to see you back on your feet" "Hi, CIarissa" "Is that a Mercedes?" "Welcome, come in" "It's a Horch from 1 934" "Did you know the Norwegian king even rode in it?" "Want to get in?" "Don't touch anything" "Let me show you something" "Look, this car is the only car in the world with a vertical shaft" "I always say, you determine the value of a house firstly by its location, secondly by its location and thirdly by who lives in it" "You put that nicely" "Horst, show us what we got for them" "Everybody come out of the house!" "Thanks, Horst, Go and get a ladder" "Do you know what this is?" "It's the last horseshoe that Grandfather forged with his own hands" "I can still him see pounding away with his hammer until the iron was hot" "By then he had stomach cancer, and he died three weeks later" "Oh, well, that's the kind of man Matthias Simon was our grandfather, who we descended from" "Hartmut, you too!" "Horst put that horseshoe in the middle, on that beam" "Here" "Hermann, CIarissa it will bring good luck" "That's just superstition, You don't even believe it yourself" "Mara, I'm not talking to you about superstition" "We should put the horseshoe inside so the good luck doesn't stay outside" "If you say so, Mara" "Hermann I have something else for you" "Look at this" "This is the telescope you used when you were fifteen to gaze at the stars" "Yes, I remember" "You always felt the urge to strive for higher things" "Now it's returned to its rightful owner, you" "I'm happy that you have come home" "And now the flags of all twenty-four participating nations..." "From two hundred..." "Come and look at our castle" "It fit in with our plans that houses weren't built around living rooms" "Take the flowers" "Upstairs, first" "Need some help?" "Very nice" "Udo, the blue bedroom is beautiful" "You've got one thing on your mind!" "I'll put my clarinet away" "It's great" "It's so nice" "Shit" "This is my domain" "I still don't know where to put all my suitcases" "I have so much stuff" "Here is the bathroom" "During construction we lost our faith in the house" "We hope that by living here it will gradually return" "We hope to regain its trust" "We call this room our blue room" "And here's why..." "We have a magnificent view of Pfalzburg Castle, near Kaub" "Take a look" "We'll report the opening ceremony without all the electronic nonsense" "A sanctuary..." "Gunnar?" "Do you know what you're going to do?" "Don't get up" "What are your plans afterwards?" "I'm not going back to Leipzig, I'm never going back" "Here are the Australians" "Maybe Berlin" "The best idea I've had is to live in East Berlin and work in West Berlin" "If you want a job, you will get one" "With paintings, it is like it is with women once you're in love, you go blind" "I would hang them on the wall" "What the woman?" "You have no idea" "Hold this" "Do you speak Russian?" "You have smelled another rat, haven't you?" "I see it in your eyes, This time it's Russia" "I smell it every night" "It keeps me awake" "So I come here and make room for the Beckmanns and the works of Kandinsky" "Tobi!" "I know exactly where they are and how to get there..." "What they cost" "What they cost to me" "So, do you speak Russian?" "Yes, I speak Russian" "Proletarians of all nations, unite!" "Long live the socialist world revolution!" "Amazing treasures are waiting for us" "For us?" "I will make you an offer" "You can work for me as my right-hand man" "You studied to be a curator, You know all about these things" "And you're a person who works hard and doesn't say too much" "I like that" "I don't have a family, I keep myself busy here" "What you see here is my storeroom for everything that has to be restored or framed or that has been damaged" "If we reach an agreement, I'll show you my real storeroom" "I'll show you everything I've collected piece by piece, over forty years" "I have collected so much" "I sometimes don't even know what I have or what I want it for" "Leave me out of it" "But the cherries are ripe enough to pick" "Just like in 1 945" "Precious treasures laid in the mud" "You got a Picasso for a pack of butter" "In the '50s, in the food and furniture days I helped myself to Baroque furniture, a silk afghan, five lmpressionist paintings and it's the same today in the East" "For a video player and a few dollars you get all the art you want" "What has it got to do with me?" "I will give you 3,500 marks, plus room and board" "You can make yourself at home" "3,500 West German marks" "Tobi" "I didn't know it cost so much" "I didn't know I didn't know" "Building is a lovely thing" "Building is a lovely thing" "I didn't know it cost so much" "I didn't know ." "I didn't know" "Building is such a lovely thing" "I brought you a little souvenir" "Pitt took this picture on the day we shook hands" "It will hang better in your house so every day you can see what you did" "Thanks, Mr Wallauer" "The World Cup has started" "Come in, Anton!" "Since I became president of Schabbach Football club there's been no pampering" "Nevertheless, two of our boys are now playing for Cologne" "They've got professional contracts" "I haven't been waiting for this to happen but I realised years ago my big moment would come when he'd had enough" "So it really was a stroke?" "Yes, it was" "Every day I told him not to trust that pharmaceutical poison" "If only he had changed his eating habits" "We should take advantage and revamp the company's ship so it's seaworthy to leave, if you know what I mean" "The world is being carved up again, but he has no idea" "He just won't give up the reins" "Like farmers who won't let the kids take over" "Oh, come on, Move forwards" "What are they doing?" "Mum!" "Maradona versus..." "The line-up isn't great" "Why do they get put in the penalty area?" "In the penalty area, you get a penalty" "Anywhere else on the pitch, you get a free kick" "Do you know what a free kick is?" "Not to be mistaken with a penalty kick" "In our world of sport the penalty kick is also known as a penalty" "Long live the penalty!" "Are the kids asleep now?" "Just about" "That's good" "They are worn out" "I can imagine" "Reinhold wanted to drive non-stop to Munich" "It's nice you came, and Hermann is so pleased" "They are asleep now" "Darling, I'm going to watch football" "OK" "Petra..." "Yes" "Did Ramona do your hair?" "It's nice" "She always does" "She's expecting her third child" "Really?" "I'm the dishwasher at home, too" "We appreciate men like you" "In Brittany, you can eat really well" "We had a stew with lots of pikeperch in it and real lobster, but the best was the gigot pré salé" "Know what that is?" "No" "Lamb from the salt fields" "You don't even have to salt it" "Imagine that" "Tell me later" "Why?" "Do you want Gunnar to hear?" "No" "I mean, try to understand him" "You're right" "Sometimes I forget about everything that is going on" "Thanks, Tobi" "No one could have done this as well as you, Well done" "And this is from CIarissa" "Didn't Ernst want to come?" "Maybe it was unrealistic to think so" "He isn't really a family man" "Thanks very much, Mr Simon" "It's time to say goodbye again, and go our separate ways" "Yes, a new life" "Well?" "I'll put the rose in my Trabant, That's where it belongs" "And a corner is given" "What was that?" "A goal?" "Come here" "It's very simple" "Every socket and every lamp has two little lights a red one and a green one" "When the red light is on the consumer is using the socket" "And the green lights?" "The LEDs show the current status of each station" "When the green light is on, the lamp upstairs is on" "For example Mr Simon leaves his house to conduct a concert and at a glance he can see if he will have an astronomical electricity bill" "If he pushes this button he can see how much he's used to a tenth of a kilowatt-hour" "You're good at so many things" "When there's no leakage current..." "Leakage current?" "Oh, there's wine growing here!" "Why do you want to come here?" "It's like this after a thunderstorm" "Where are you going?" "They're so hot" "The heat builds up during the day" "It's so hot when I sit down" "I'll come over to you" "I hope there are no ants or snails" "Daddy, I brought you these from the sea" "Thanks, Thank you, Jenny" "How sweet" "Rudi, where did you get the meat from?" "I'm glad you like it" "Try the meat from Steinhauser" "Pitt did this" "Did he?" "I never thought he could" "Yes, he did" "It looks really nice, doesn't it?" "I have something to say, It can't go on like this" "You have to talk to him" "1 -0 to Cameroon" "Those negroes!" "I can't believe it!" "Gunnar, I think we should sort some things out" "Sort things out?" "What are you saying?" "What do we have to sort out?" "The removal van is coming on 2nd July, Will you be home in Leipzig?" "Do you think I'll help you clear the place?" "You know, thanks to you, after half a year the kids barely know their father" "Nonsense!" "Who can they turn to?" "That bastard from the West?" "Stop being so crude!" "I'm not crude at all!" "I was always working" "The panelling..." "You're not a role model for the kids" "What?" "Why aren't I a role model?" "Why aren't I a role model?" "Torsten, if Germany makes the final, we will all drive to Rome" "I promise" "All of us, Mum, Jacques, you and me" "We have to see it for ourselves, Come on" "I'm wide awake" "I saw you yawning" "Are you OK?" "That's wonderful, Thank you very much" "The sausage tastes strange" "I wonder why that is" "No need to cry, I'll get your mum, and everything will be fine" "Jana, do you know where Petra is?" "Outside" "Everything is a mess" "The kids have had enough" "Yes" "There she is" "Look, there's your mum" "I think I'm in the way" "Did you sort things out?" "The kids are staying with me" "Which idiot parked his car next to my Beetle?" "Somebody is as blind as a bat!" "Can't you go inside and look after your kids?" "Why are you shouting at people?" "Jesus, Udo!" "Tell your lover to move his wheels, or there will be trouble!" "I don't want any trouble" "Are you talking to me?" "You slut" "Not here" "You betrayed the family" "Stop it, Gunnar" "Come on" "The kids are staying with me" "You stupid bitch!" "That's it" "I'm fed up with this!" "What?" "Get your hands off me!" "Shut up!" "I'll move the car out of the way" "Great" "Oh, my darling" "I want to stay with Mummy" "Yes" " How late is it?" " lt's midnight" "Horst, come here" "Have they noticed we're not there?" "No, they're all glued to the TV" "No, the game is already over" "Do you think so?" "A game like that has to be over sometime" "Unfortunately" "I can't wait for everyone to leave, so we can be alone" "It's always like that" "You invite people and you can't wait for them to leave" "It's so nice here" "We ought to get back" "OK, but we will be back" "A house of love" "Arnold, are you still awake?" "They are all still asleep down there" "Yes, it's a nice house with a nice view" "A good income" "And lots of love-making every night" "I tried it myself but I only touched down for a short time and then took off again" "Here, look in my pocket" "Go ahead, take a look" "Dollars!" "We will be kings from Vilnius to VIadivostok" "I know the important curators and collectors there" "They're willing to sell off their museums for Western currency" "Are we really flying to Russia?" "Listen, I have a bad feeling about the whole idea" "First to Lithuania" "I know the aerial surveillance staff, Then we will see" "Dollars, marks, videos, Friends, here comes the brave new world" "Delta, echo, hotel, Lima, tango, continuing the flight over Fulda to the former East German border" "Get permission to leave frequency" "Delta, echo, hotel, Lima, tango" "Keep the maximum altitude to 3,500 metres until leaving controlled airspace" "He's awake!" "He's awake!" "Hurry" "Want to see the goat?" "Yes!" "Then get going" "Careful!" "Morning" "Congratulations" "It's a special occasion" "Very special" "Who is going to tell him?" "CIarissa should tell him" "I don't understand" "Reinhold phoned the broadcasting company" "I meant to do it before my holiday" "Hermann, they're going to ask you to write a re-unification symphony" "The broadcasting companies agreed" "And so did the Music Council" "An orchestral piece for the opening night in Berlin" "Not a bad beginning for a new life" "In our house" "And I slept like a log" "Cheers!" "I restored a church down there" "The pews and frescoes were from the seventeenth century" "Music at the Cockatoo at night" "Since you know your way around, we need to refuel" "Is that a military airport?" "Marxwalde, You bet I know my way around" "They worked me dry when I got drafted" "I can't imagine you in the army" "Marching in step, standing to attention..." "I didn't get past the uniform, I refused to put it on" "Tobi, let's land there" "I'm curious to know..., ...if they're still big mouths, or if they will fill up our tank" "There was a Lenin monument where they beat me up" "Revenge is sweet, Tobi" "Times have changed" "Pay attention to how I do it" "Hello, gentlemen" "Take us to the base commander" "I'm the squadron commander" "Then you know what to do, We will follow you" "OK, follow me" "They think you're from the West German army" "Let them think that" "Then I'm from the Disarmament Council" "I like this game" "Simon, I would really like to go up in that MIG" "I'm only familiar with our fighters" "I used to fly a Tornado 4B" "I don't think we would get clearance for take-off" "I could get in and gun those engines" "What did you say, a Tornado 4B?" "Yes, come with me" "I'll take a look inside" "What about you?" "You're familiar with this, aren't you?" "Throttle in neutral and then start it" "Everybody wants to be taken over by the West German army" "I start working for an insurance company in July" "At the same time as the currency reform" "You're a pilot?" "It's great, I know the feeling" "There is always a risk, isn't there?" "You want a feeling of security" "It's good to know you're insured" "At the moment we're selling all our equipment" "Our Minister of Defence is a pastor of disarmament" "These are all tank engines" "Twelve cylinders for the T54 and T55" "Six cylinders for the PT7 6 and for the tank-pontoon ferry, GSP55" "Back there we have helicopter engines for the Mi-2 that have hardly been used" "If I unpack one, it's ready in ten minutes" "This one is being taken over by the West German aerial surveillance" "Lots of people are interested" "We have even had a set designer here" "He wants thousands of uniforms as costumes for entire movies" "Look, protective winter clothing for paramedics, jackets neck-warmers called Grandma" "And this here is very special" "A gas mask for kids" "East Germany was the only country to design them for mother and child" "This is the common army sock, and here diving suits, combat packs for officers tanks for combat swimmers and if you need a sleeping bag, we have ten thousand" "This is what it's like when a country disintegrates" "Come on, let's take a picture" "What a jet" "We raced them over the steppes of Kazakhstan" "Kazakhstan, Have you been there?" "I trained to be a cosmonaut there" "We all know somebody else went up, Still, I had a great time" "Do you know the air corridors in Russia?" "And smile" "The aerial surveillance in Belarus is intact" "fly over Lithuania" "I know my way around there" "Head towards Vitevsk, Smolensk, and stay south of Moscow" "You have a tailwind of 1 20 knots, Head towards Tula" "How far can you get with your 1 7 2?" "A thousand with a tailwind" "A thousand" "You know what?" "fly during the Russia versus Argentina game" "Good idea" "They will be in front of their TVs instead of watching their radar" "It might just work" "I would like to go with you" "Is this from May 1 981 ?" "Yes" "Let's have a look" "You have fractured your right fibula" "It has twisted on its axis" "Bone consolidation" "A skiing accident?" "Five army thugs against one civilian, Can I have it as a souvenir?" "You know  what he's saying might be of interest to the prosecution" "I don't want to be accused of withholding evidence" "Is Captain Gies still around?" "Major Gies is still around, He's in charge of demobilisation" "What is the score, comrade?" "Nil-nil" "Comrade Major?" "Yes" "Is life still great?" "You're from one of those committees, Found anything yet?" "Write this down!" "A hundred kilos of boots, five hundred kilos of steel helmets five hundred combat uniforms, a hundred kilos of fur hats  a hundred kilos of belts, a sackful of epaulettes and your cap" "Take it off" "You want them to take you over" "Do you want to be taken over?" "Listen" "I had nothing against you then" "I had nothing to gain from it" "I had to work hard" "I was on manoeuvres three times a year and that is not easy" "If we hadn't kept quiet in November, there would have been a civil war" "I'm glad that it's finally over" "Do you want to see how it looks if you don't have anything against me?" "You and your men attacked me" "Do you remember where it was?" "At Lenin's feet" "But you did the kicking, You kicked me!" "Why am I doing all the talking?" "We went through it together" "Where is Lenin now?" "Lenin?" "I personally made sure he was disposed of in December" "He belongs on the rubbish heap, and he will be taken away soon" "Tobi, we're flying to the Volga river" "The director of the museum in Saratov is a friend of our Colonel Herzog" "We have to!" "And you found Lenin, too" "How do we get him out of here?" "He's ours" "We're fond of Russians, aren't we?" "We sell trucks, too" "What about the Krass 255?" "With the B1 ?" "With a crane" "That is what you need" "How much?" "Ernst" "Tobi, how else do you expect to disarm?" "OK!" "Hello" "Is that Major Gies's house?" "Yes" "Good" "It's all right, we're from the Disarmament Council" "MARXWALDE" " A GUESTHOUSE" "Do you snore?" "Yes" "That's OK then" "I do, too" "I would have loved to have seen his face when he got home" "old Lenin gazing through his window" "I bet he's dreaming about the triumph of Communism" "Ernst?" "Ernst!" "What's wrong?" "I'm not coming" "What?" "I don't understand you" "No!" "Because of him?" "It's a clear warning!" "What's wrong?" "Ernst they have their old contacts" "They will tell them we're coming and bring us down" "They know what you're up to" "They have more important things to deal with, like the World Cup" "When the USSR plays they will be watching the football instead of looking at their radar" "We will be back for the final" "I can sense when they're planning something" "Just think about it, This is insane" "The Russian Defence System isn't a football club" "I'm not going" "I can't let this chance pass me by" "I would regret it till the day I die, if I don't go for that big haul" "First we will fly to Vilnius" "Then see what happens" "Pilot, send my regards to the sun" "1 0 JUNE 1 990" " EAST BERLIN" "Do you live here?" "Yes" "Does a man who plays the trumpet live here?" "Yes, over there" "Do you hear him?" "Yes" "That's great" "We used to play music together at school" "Do you have music lessons at school?" "Do you go to school?" "No" "But will you start soon?" "I bet you will be really good at school" "I have a daughter, too, Her name is Nadine" "What's your name?" "Rosa" "What are you doing?" "Watch it!" "Why don't you stop screaming?" "I asked the girl if there is a musician living there" "That's all, Nothing more" "I saw how you parked your car before you talked to the little girl" "I wrote down your number" "We look after each other here" "Can you tell me whether Jürgen Senne still lives here?" "I don't know" "Could you tell me where he lives?" "No" "Jürgen!" "It's me, Gunnar!" "Where is he?" "Hello?" "Your door is open" "Is anyone here?" "Mr Buschkowiak?" "Oh, God!" "DON'T FORGET LOVE" "Hello, there" "It's pretty hard" "Can I borrow this?" "Nothing professional" "Yes, OK" "But this is my spot" "Maybe you can go over there?" "Yes, sure" "This is my spot" "Is here OK?" "Carry on hammering" "This way you can see my name" "This is my first time" "I brought a real chisel, it cost 29,95 West German marks" "It cost twenty marks on Kurfürstendamm" "Twenty marks?" "Give me your address and sign this" "Which newspaper is it?" "You will get a free issue" "I'm not sure about that, There's a problem with my address" "I'm just living here temporarily, for the time being" "Gunnar Brehme" "Your name is really Brehme?" "I wouldn't write it otherwise" "That's incredible" "Wait a minute, Yes, yes!" "Can you read it?" "Yes, great" "Thank you" "Yes, bye" "Incredible, Gunnar Brehme..." "Walter Gebhard is the coach of the Austrian Olympic team" "The assistant coach is Josef Hickersberger" "A foul by Paul" "That's how the Italians saw it" "Bergomi, mamma mia!" "He's pleading to all the cardinals in Italy, but the match goes on" "I'm sorry" "I had no idea you were on the toilet" "Go away!" "I just wanted to throw out a pan of food" "By the way the flat under yours is a complete pigsty" "But I'm moving in, I've got to live somewhere" "Maybe we will run into each other again" "I didn't mean any harm" "Anna!" "It's Tobi" "What are you up to?" "I'm a football fan for Germany" "A football fan?" "For Germany?" "I'm supporting the USSR" "Is your mum upstairs?" "Let's go up" "Are you in the cultural attaché of Bulgaria?" "No mistakes in the defence" "Germany!" "Yes, Germany!" "Germany!" "Branco" "Careca" "It's not offside!" "That's 1-0" "Does no one want to be in the cultural attaché?" "When does the USSR play?" "The USSR?" "And Bulgaria?" "I was there on holiday" "This is Silvia" "I have to show you something" "To Sofia?" "N exxt wee k?" "O f co u rsse" "Isn't it great?" "No more Wall, no more bans, Everybody's got their own plans" "I'll take the night train, and I'll be there early tomorrow" "We blamed East Germany if we failed, Now we have to blame ourselves" "We could be squatters" "Tobi, don't you want to?" "What you will do?" "I'm just glad to be home again" "You were gone for so long" "You can tell me what you're going to do with Lenin tomorrow" "She looks like a hygiene inspector" "She is, Oh, that's her!" "Hello, we thought you weren't coming 1 4 JUNE 1 990" " LEIPZIG, ANGER-CROTTENDORF DISTRICT" "This is for you to sign" "Mr Trötsch?" "Trötzsch" "Trötzsch" "Don't worry" "I wrote you a letter, but we don't need it any more" "Is that your wife?" "Yes, that's her, I'll fetch the equipment in" "Well?" "She wants to know if I'm suitable" "She's starting with the roof" "I hope I can deal with those pigeons" "The stupid thing is that the building has been declared unsafe" "That's awful, Udo!" "We will manage" "Let me know when you're finished" "Sure" "Thanks" "Goodbye, Mrs Trötzsch" "Can I give you a lift?" "Great, I have to go to Wiederitzsch" "That's on my way" "That's nice of you, Thank you" "My husband has already done that kind of work in the West" "Has he?" "He said to me, "Jana, we have to do the same thing in Leipzig"" "We can't let this town go to pieces just because Berlin gets everything" "It would be nice for us" "Maybe we could have a trip to Italy with the boys" "Who knows if they will let us East Germans in" "Of course, I made enquiries" "You only need a passport" "Really?" "You know, years ago it would have been really nice but I don't think I can now" "My husband and the boys are real football fans" "They want to see the final in Rome, if West Germany gets there" "The boys deserve it" "They would have something to talk about" "Your time has come!" "Get out of here!" "I will get you out!" "My time has come!" "Get out!" "Damn it!" "What a mess!" "Get out of here!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "PICTURE OF THE DAY" "PIECES OF THE BERLIN WALL TWO MARKS EACH" "SUNDAY 1 7 JUNE 1 990 BERLIN, KURFURSTENDAMM" "Move back a little" "Who wants to try this?" "Bye!" "Are these pieces of the Berlin Wall?" "Two marks each" "Are they genuine pieces of the Berlin Wall?" "Yes, genuine pieces of our Wall" "Do you read the paper?" "This is me" "My name is Brehme" "Just a moment" "Here is my chisel, 29,95 marks" "Very fine East German concrete" "Two marks" "Could you supply us with a million pieces by mid-November?" "In a nice little package" "Nicely packaged" "One million pieces?" "We can't pay two marks apiece" "Sure" "I'll write down the phone number" "Call me when you have the samples" "Ask for Mr Nothe" "That's me, like a good "note" but spelt "th"" ""47 6 8004"" ""47 6 8004"" "Hello, this is the Warner Bros' Berlin office" "You can reach us on Monday to Fridays from..." "Warner Bros!" "I didn't know!" "Would you accept a coffee invitation from someone who just got a million-mark contract from Warner Bros?" "If he spoke proper German and didn't stink" "Did I make myself clear?" "Hello!" "I'm..." "I'm Gunnar Brehme from downstairs" "I know you're there, I've heard your footsteps" "I wanted to ask you if it might be possible to put this in your washing machine" "Could you possibly wash my shirt?" "I would appreciate it" "Thank you!" "Thank you very much" "You did it" "You destroyed the family" "I would have worked hard" "You never would have guessed we would become millionaires" "I always made my own living" "What about you?" "Never, with such a mummy's boy" "Petra, I ask myself, "What's happened to your pride?"" "But I want you to know when you come crawling back little Gunnar won't be little any more" "You will be surprised" "You can't really believe you will stay with him" "You've got two kids" "Didn't that occur to you?" "Who will want you with little kids?" "Just you wait, Petra" "We will see each other again but on a different level" "OK, let's weigh it just for fun" "Three cheers for Germany" "So that makes fifty-nine grammes" "Fifty-nine grammes multiplied by a million makes fifty-nine tonnes" "Augenthaler" "Reuter" "Just a minute" "And again, Brehme" "Fifty-nine tonnes" "This place can't handle that, I can forget it" "A bit smaller" "Not this one" "This one" "It's twelve grammes" "That's still twelve tonnes without packaging" "I have the samples" "Thank you" "please, have a seat" "Mr Brehme, sorry" "Hello, Mr Nothe" "Well to be honest your samples were not as good as we were expecting" "I was afraid of that so that's why I have an idea I would like to show you" "All right, have a seat" "You see I worked out how heavy a million pieces would be" "For example, here we have fifty-three grammes" "A million pieces would weigh fifty-three tonnes" "As much as I would like to, my flat couldn't hold that much" "Do you know what comes in this box?" "The Karl Marx medal" "If someone in East Germany made a great cup of coffee they got the medal" "Miss Müller is from East Germany" "You don't look like you are" "Miss Müller, coffee with everything" "Milk?" "Sugar?" "please" "Where will you get a million boxes?" "It's good you have reminded me of my social responsibility" "I wouldn't want my female workers to be exploited" "They only work for me, three shifts, So we need to do some investing" "Would it be possible to get a thirty-five per cent advance payment?" "Who is supposed to get a million Karl Marx medals?" "That's a secret!" "The re-unification was a hoax!" "What will happen to this place?" "We're closing down" "I'm the only one still working" "The others just twiddle their thumbs" "And you?" "What's your name, anyway?" "Martina" "What will happen to you?" "My boyfriend has an idea, but he won't even tell me what it is" "I hope he doesn't make you walk the streets" "Aren't you a bit hot?" "Enough of that!" "Get out of here!" "You said earlier we can only blame ourselves for failing" "Exactly" "I think we are going to fail" "THE START OF THE GERMAN CURRENC Y REFORM" "We fail out of principle just to prove that the world is unjust" "I think that is stupid" "Me, too" "You, too?" "How do you mean?" "We were on the right side, but we lost the election" "And now we're proud of it" "Things have to change, That's how I see it" "Me, too" "Hello." "Would you like some ice cream?" "I don't know if I should accept Ernst's offer" "It's up to you, but you don't know when he will be back" "Here you are" "People don't want to spend money on coffee" "That waiter is on his own" "Have a nice day" "Anna..." "Hello" "Want some ice cream?" "Yes" "Small or large?" "Small" "Chocolate or vanilla?" "Chocolate" "Look at that" "It should be a kilo, but may be a little more" "Perhaps a bit more than two pounds?" "That is four marks" "Four marks?" "Four marks is fine" "Keep the change" "Thanks" "So long" "Bye" "Wonderful cherries here from near Berlin" "They're sweet and juicy, A kilo for just four marks" "What can I do for you?" "I just wanted to look around" "Look around?" "please, go ahead" "I saw EIton John play one like that, but it was made of plastic" "That's possible" "What sort of price range were you thinking of?" "I'm afraid a big one like this won't fit in my flat" "You could be right" "Some customers have a particular preference" "No, if it's good, it can be expensive" "What about this little one here?" "What about that one?" "This would be just right" "Can I give you these?" "Sure" "Thanks" "No" "That's right" "And I thought I couldn't afford it" "Come with me" "Our piano maker, with twenty or thirty years of experience" "And the tuning and intonation is done here" "This is where the instrument gets its life and soul" "How are you?" "Petra are you moving out?" "Sorry, it's obvious" "Where are the kids?" "In Munich" "Do you have to do this all alone?" "Won't he help?" "Gunnar, what comes to mind when you see this hallway here?" "OK, you're right but people can change" "Petra if you change your mind and decide to come back I will always have room for you" "always" "I have business connections with Warner Bros" "I work for them" "You know, clint Eastwood, Tina Turner, Faye Dunaway..." "I will take you" "I want to be seen with you" "I'll leave the furniture here, You can give the kids' furniture away" "Let me" "Put everything in the boxes and close the door when I'm finished" "You don't believe me, but I'm like a first prize" "COFFEE, MINCEMEAT, RICE" "PEAS" "I found it, "Milking by hand"" ""The cleansed udder should be carefully prepared..."" ""...so the milk can be released"" "What's meant by "prepared"?" "Prepared?" "Come on, Bianca" "Come here" "I want to tie you up here" "Can't you help me hold her?" "It's OK, Come here" "Hold her tight..." "Hold the tail" "What do they mean?" "That's good" "Good girl, Calm down" "I don't know what it means" "Look it up in the dictionary" "OK, listen" ""Pinching the teats or pulling is cruelty to animals"" ""It can damage the udder"" ""These methods aren't used any more"" ""Squeezing is the correct way"" "Here's a drawing" "Here it is, Look, CIarissa" ""Pinching and pulling are wrong"" ""There are three methods"" ""With two fingers, four fingers and with the whole fist"" "Come on" "It's coming" "You're pulling, Don't pull" "No, I'm squeezing" "Cameroon are down to ten men" "Dobrovolsky..." "That's a goal!" "1-0" "The pass was from Litovchenko" "I want to be here for three weeks" "Then let's compare our schedules" "That would only make us sad" "Let's carry on" "SUNDAY 8 JULY 1 990 WORLD CUP FINAL DAY" "Hello!" "Is anybody there?" "Hello!" "Ernst!" "Ernst!" "Hello" "Brehme on the left in the defence and Kohler in front of the striker Augenthaler and Guido Buchwald" "Rudi!" "Tobi, it's about to start" "Hessler's playing in mid-field" "Have you heard from Ernst?" "No, nothing, have you?" "Rudi Völler, a home game for him, and for Berthold and Klinsmann" "Here we go, the World Cup Final" "Argentina versus the Federal Republic of Germany" "Come on, sit down" "Littbarski on the left..." "Ruggeri right up against Klinsmann" "Ernst, I'm getting worried" "The entire German bench has stood up" "Beckenbauer is still." "Next to him is Holger Osieck" "The fans are waiting for the final whistle" "They're beginning to celebrate." "Only the substitutes are watching" "Don't make any mistakes now ." "A throw -in for Germany" "This is nerve-racking" "Jürgen Kohler can't stand it any more." "They're giving a penalty!" "It's a penalty!" "Augenthaler deserved one much more than Völler did" "He faked it!" "That wasn't a penalty!" "He faked it!" "What a bad call!" "What do you say?" "Could be" "This one shot will decide the title for the German team" "He can shoot with both feet, but he normally shoots with his right" "Enough of that" "We just hope he scores" "Brehme against the goalkeeper, Goycochea" "Yes!" "Goal!" "Goal!" "Goal!" "A well-deserved win for the German national football team" "Four minutes and forty seconds before the end of the match" "Brehme, Brehme, Brehme!" "It will never happen again" "I know" "Your taxi is here" "Germany, Germany, Germany..." "Yes, we have done it!" "PART TWO - THE CHAMPIONS"