00:00Today, Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station is a busy transport hub.
00:05It's easy to forget in everyday life that the station was once a central border crossing point.
00:12With their film, Berlin Friedrichstrasse 1990, Lili Grotter, Konstanze Binder, Ulrika Herden and Julia Kunert
00:21captured this history as a contemporary witness to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
00:46The film was deliberately shot from two perspectives, Lili Grotter and Konstanze Binder with west-german experience,
00:55Ulrika Herden and Julia Kunert with east-german backgrounds.
01:20For a long time, Friedrichstrasse was a place of fear and control.
01:25The documentary shows the change through conversations with border guards, travelers and saleswomen during the fall of the Berlin Wall,
01:33including a few humorous scenes.
01:48The film captures how the station changed within a few months in the midst of the everyday life of travelers.
01:55Between arriving and departing trains, the border booths were dismantled piece by piece after reunification, and in the end, only
02:04dust remained on the platforms.
02:18For Grotter, the station is still an interesting topic for a documentary to this day, with the station
02:25having previously offered routes like the historic Paris Moscow Express.
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