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Directed by Wolfgang Becker
In German with English subtitles

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime and is arrested. His mother suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she wakes up from it, the wall is gone and the country she knew no longer exists. What unfolds now is a bittersweet comedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Laurie Marhoefer, Professor of History at Syracuse University, discusses the short-term cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the role of chance in this historical moment.