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For 28 years, the Berlin Wall split a city and a whole nation. While the notorious dangers frightened many GDR citizens, there were others who tried to overcome it. Families fly across the border in a home-made hot air balloon or swing over the Wall hanging from a makeshift pulley. The Wall still works but Communism is crumbling behind it. Suddenly, the borders are open, and the Wall comes down.

The opening of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans as it probably did to the whole world. How has this historic moment come about?

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Three siblings with contrasting lives in 1989 East Germany - one a state employee, another an eco-activist, and the third resurfacing from the West. A poignant look at the Berlin Wall's fall and its aftermath.

Weissensee is a German television series. The series is set in East Berlin in 1980 and 1987 and follows two families.

Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions.