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Patrick Rothman's documentary makes us relive the months, days and hours leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explains the increases in political and economic difficulties forcing a cautious system to undertake an impossible reassessment. It shows the pressure from demonstrators marching throughout the country who were asking for fundamental reforms with increasing audacity. It accuses the country's leaders of confusion and paralysis; a State hesitating between the temptation to repress and the political difficulty of coming to terms with it. Finally, it evokes the decision, to give itself some respite, to soften emigration procedures, followed by the decision, almost made by mistake, to open a wall that would never be re-sealed. |