Sealed Lips (Und der Zukunft zugewandt)

Today is Lydia's 11th birthday.

If only I could bake her a cake and have a nice day with her and Gerhard.

Gerhard is only 1 km away but unreachable nevertheless.

But I must not give up hope, ever.

What keeps us all strong is the belief

that our fate serves a higher purpose,

victory for the Revolution,

victory for Communism.

How much easier it would be if our torturers were enemies...

But by the hands of comrades?

Why?

Are you mad?

Does she have a fever?

You must go back!

Gerhard, please!

Just two years. We will make it!

You must go, now.

Stop!

Stay right there!

I wasn't escaping! I just wanted to see my daughter.

Lydia, it's her birthday. I haven't seen her for three years.

She lives with her mother!

Stop lying! - It's the truth, comrade!

Shoot him! - I'm a Communist! An engineer!

I helped build the Moscow metro. Comrade Stalin was at the inauguration...

Shoot him, come on!

Long live Communism! Long live Comrade Stalin!

Is this your husband?

I asked you a question!

Sign here, quickly now!

...I said hurry up!

Let's Go

At the Brandenburg Gate,

hundreds have climbed the Wall to get a glimpse of the other side.

But the East German boarder patrol is nowhere to be seen.

People help each other climb up.

Thousands of from East and West Berlin

have come together at the Wall.

Together, they want to experience this memorable day.

You don't want to come?

Do you feel ill?

Come on.

Mrs. Berger.

Of course, I'm watching.

I envy Irma that she didn't live to see.

Konrad, please. I don't want to fight.

Then why did you call?

You know what it means to me.

You want me to admit you were right?

Oh, Konrad.

The truth...

When should I have told her?

Toni!

Are you insane?

Your husband is dead. You live!

Your child lives! Have you forgotten?

I wrote to our embassy in Moscow again.

They cannot pretend we don't exist!

Get up! Work on! Move!

I'll ask again.

Comrade Heck.

Your son has been waiting half an hour.

I have information...

that you made contact

with our embassy in Moscow.

You don't have enough to do as the head of Interflug airlines?

The ambassador called me.

It's about Comrade Schumann, your former secretary in Moscow.

She is innocent, you know.

Just like Antonia Berger of the Left Column and Irma Seibert...

And who else then?

Dozens of our comrades rot in the gulags.

Innocent.

For crimes they didn't commit, and we turn a blind eye.

It happened to many.

It could have been you. - It was war.

How were our Soviet comrades to know whom they could depend upon?

1938 was before the war, father.

None of Lenin's friends lived through the year.

Did they all suddenly turn to enemies?

And you wish to bring them back?

In my name? - They are our comrades!

We were exiled together.

I love the Soviet Union. It is my second home.

Injustice is still injustice!

Do what you will.

But remember:

this conversation never took place.

Schumann, Susanna?

Yes.

Berger, Antonia?

Yes.

What will happen to us?

Siebert, Irma?

You will leave Vorkuta in one hour.

You may bring one 30 kilo bag. Your work clothes stay here.

Where are we going?

You have one hour. Go!

Stop the truck!

What's going on? - My child is dying of fever!

Back to the truck! Hurry up!

Lydia!

Lydia!

Come on.

Hold onto me.

Our guests from Moscow.

Hannah Sydow, of the German Communist Party.

Welcome to the German Dem... - My child needs a doctor.

All in good time... - Now!

Fine, then...

let's go to the clinic first.

You can bring the others to the guest home from there.

Where's the children's ward? - Second floor.

We have to go upstairs.

Almost there, sweetie.

Try again.

Why are you coming so late?

Your daughter has frostbite.

Her ID will be sent after... - Not possible.

Of course, it is. - I'll have to ask the doctor.

What's the matter? - She has no insurance ID.

Who exactly are we treating?

I'm with party leadership,

and this comrade just arrived with her child in the GDR.

Aha.

And what should I write? - Nothing.

The ID will be here in a few days, and you can add it.

The best medicine available:

penicillin.

She has to drink it all.

Please, Lydia, drink this. We have so often dreamed about our future.

Try to drink this, please.

If your daughter survives the night,

she is saved.

It's taken care of.

If anyone asks where you're from,

it's none of their business.

I spoke with the nurse.

You may use the bathroom.

There's a shower too.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Try to sleep.

Where is my child?

What is her name?

Berger. Lydia Berger.

Here we are.

Ernst-Thélmann-Strafie 12.

Look here.

From next week, you'll get a newspaper too.

Come along.

I'll wait downstairs. - We'll be right down.

Here are...

500 marks, for the basics.

And your food ration stamps.

We have work placements for you,

based on your professions before emigrating to the USSR.

Despite that being a long time ago.

So...

Comrade Berger...

will take over the "House of the People."

With your theater experience, we are sure you're the right person.

Comrade Schumann will work for the Freies Wort publishing house.

The editor in chief is Comrade Michel.

He's expecting you soon.

Comrade Seibert, we're looking for a placement in food services.

Tomorrow, I will know more.

If you have questions...

Good morning.

Leo Silberstein.

Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda.

Hello.

Are you settling in?

I see everything set up fine:

apartment, work, money.

Don't hesitate to ask me any questions, or Comrade Sydow.

To finalize it all, please sign here:

bottom right.

This...

This says that we...

We didn't work in "various places" in the USSR.

We were in a labor camp.

Innocent.

"Hereby, I undertake

"to give no spoken or written testimony about my stay in the Soviet Union

no information whatsoever.

I have been notified

that infringement thereof violates the laws of the GDR

and punishable."

I know what we ask of you, comrades.

I refuse that salutation.

I am no longer a comrade.

What you have experienced

has nothing to do with Communism.

But you mustn't forget we are on a path unknown to history.

There shall come a time to clear the air.

But not now.

You were gone so long.

Much has changed.

In the West are the Nazis who hate us.

But here, we are in power.