The Same Sky - First Season

She had another stroke and died, it happens.

Teufelsberg is still the target, through Sabine Cutter.

Her father is a big shot of NSA.

I met someone from the West, it's my only chance.

I wanna help with the tunnel.

Who told you about it?

He won't talk.

Please, let me speak to someone!

You must not be ashamed of what's happening to your body.

Everything will be back to normal,

in the meantime not a word to your father...I mean it.

Find a way into her house and a good place for the bugs.

Is it just a hobby, or...

It's my job and my passion.

You're lucky to have a job that's also your passion.

June 22, 1974 World Cup, prestigious FRG team plays amateur GDR.

GDR is playing an offensive match, although Beckenbauer and Overath...

are way more elegant than Hansi Kreische and other FRG mid-fielders.

The game is still open...

Go for it!

No way! I can't believe it!

The counterattack by Martin Hoffmann...

then by Sparwasser, both GDR forwards...

Why the hell he's not sending Netzer in?

Sparwasser is free to advance,

he passes to Hoffmann, Berti Vogts controls him...

he looks for space on the left...

Hello, is Sabine home?

We met last night, she left this in my car.

I'll give it to her.

Thanks.

I gotta go back, I'm listening to the game on the car radio.

Wouldn't you rather watch it?

If it's not a problem...

Come on in.

GDR players keep the ball in their half...

Sabine, I think you know this young man.

Hello.

Hi.

You left this in his car.

I thought I'd lost it while dancing, you didn't have to.

No problem at all.

No introductions?

Sorry, he's Oskar. You met my father.

My sister Isabella and her husband.

Preston, a family friend.

Hi.

My mother.

Nice to meet you.

Hello.

Have a seat.

Thanks. So, no score yet?

We had chances, Muller is always alone.

Isn't Overath playing?

They both made it to the next round, who cares who wins?

It's not your average match, this is historic.

Come on now! We can't lose against these amateurs!

16 meters...ball to Cullmann...

head pass, but Muller is too slow.

Croy gets the ball and passes to Hamann...

Go! Go! Go! Hit that stuck-up bastard!

Good game so far by GDR.

Let's hope we'll have something to celebrate all together.

Come on, Hamann! Shoot!

Sparwasser...Sparwasser...goal!

Jurgen Sparwasser of Magdeburg!

Goal! Goal!

A goal by Sparwasser.

With 12 minutes to go, FRG just scored in Hamburg Volkspark Stadium.

This is indeed an historic event.

And here's the end of the game, ladies and gentlemen.

GDR players are on the field celebrating.

God, this was a blow!

Our boys were over confident,

they thought they'd won before playing.

What arrogance.

I'm a photographer.

What kind of photographs?

Mostly studio stuff: portraits, catalogs...

What I'd really love is photojournalism.

For Spiegel, Time, Life Magazine...that's my dream.

Follow your dreams you want them to come true.

Even if sometimes it's selfish.

Right.

I left Frankfurt 'cause I thought I'd have better chances here.

Did you find something?

Not yet.

I know someone at the Spiegel, I could make a call.

That'd be great but I need a portfolio ready first,

not to go empty-handed.

You know where to find me.

Impressive gallery.

As you said...when people pose for a photograph,

it's not reality...it's made up.

You have good memory.

For certain things.

Are you lost?

The toilet...?

Drowning your sorrow?

That's right.

Did you find the toilet?

I'm doing a bit of espionage.

The exact moment I was talking about, you see it right there.

They say parents take the best pictures of their children...

'cause they know them best, they know the moment.

That wasn't taken by my parents.

Whoever it was...he got the same result.

I better go now, I don't wanna disturb.

I would tell you if you did.

Got everything?

Yes.

What about the rest?

It'll be brought away and sold.

I forgot something.

Yes?

My first report...better yet, reports. Quite a few.

Did you see the game? Our great victory?

I did, yes.

3 colleagues, 2 neighbors, my dad's barber and my brother-in-law.

"Subversive propaganda"...what you mean exactly?

Like jokes...making fun of Socialism.

Here...

It's Stigles, from maintenance. The man with only one eye...

Question: Why the GDR toilet paper is so rough?

Answer: So that every last German turd gets red.

Also this, from my sister's husband.

Wanna hear a cool political joke?

Watch out, I'm a policeman.

Don't worry, I'll tell it very slow...

I'll send this through.

If you need more details, I have them. Anything.

What happened?

Close the door.

Come to daddy. Yes...good bird, come here.

That means he's healed.

It means our work is done.

Maybe he's still too weak.

He's not. Go home, little one!

Hey, you two! Have I missed something?

For top performances honoring GDR.

A medal for picking up trash.

Yea...like I'm back from in Vietnam.

What did the doctor say?

Klara, warm up the potatoes and set the table, please.

I didn't see the doctor.

I spoke with other moms, it's happening to their daughters too.

It's a reaction to training, it'll pass with time.

With time?

A couple of weeks...is this clean?

Does dad know yet?

You didn't tell him...

Keep your mouth shut and stay out of it!

It's a great chance for Klara,

she deserves it and I won't let anyone ruin it!

Not you, not your father, no one!

Do you understand? Say it!

I understand.

BAKERY

Hello?

What are you doing?!

Let go of me idiots!

He's clean.

Alright, you had enough fun.

We dig at night, 6 hours shifts.

That's the border. We are here.

Here's the canal going west, there's a barbed-wire fence there.

There's only a 30 cm hole.

We gotta go under it to cross.

Better two hours in the sewer than a lifetime in shit.

What about the debris?

We spread it around from the truck. Six hours.

Stasi Temporary Detention Center, East Berlin, Hohensconhausen.

Please! What did I do wrong?

Willy you tell me something already?

Quiet!

Stay in position! Hands on your chest!

More phone traffic between Ledl and Numan, under "Little Service".

Plus calls with two more.

Eric Gerscher and Kurt Mausler.

They discuss recruiting a net of informers throughout

West Germany, Europe and US.

Some kind of counter-intelligence unit.

For what purpose?

To undermine the social-democrats, Brandt's politic with Soviets.

You think the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany is funding this?

An operation this size? It's out of their league.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

The "Birdseye Connection".

The State Department's funding it?

What...and Nixon is in on it?

What did the Brits pick up?

Nothing on the wire.

What they don't know can't hurt them.

Shall I set up a secure line with Fort Meade?

Follow the money, that way we'll know what we're dealing with.

In the meantime, it's confidential.

If it gets out we're eavesdropping on our allies...

our international relations will fall apart like a cheap watch.

Come with me!

Hands under your thighs.