Bornholmer Straße

9 November 1989. Günter Schabowski announces that from this day forward all citizens of the German Democratic Republic are allowed to leave the country as they wish. Harald Schäfer, the commanding officer at the border checkpoint in Bornholm Street learns the news while sitting in the canteen at work. Soon, masses of Eastern Berliners line up at the Bornholm Street checkpoint and hours of drama begin. Harald and his colleagues wait for instructions from their superiors, but don't get any. The situation gets tenser and tenser as more and more people flow to the checkpoint, demanding to be let into the Federal Republic of Germany.