Friendship!

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"The GDR!"

"The German Democratic Republic!"

"The socialist state of

workers and farmers. "

"We were all the same. We all

had the same apartments. "

"We all looked the same. "

"We all ate the same food. "

"We knew what everyone else knew. "

"Our agents were the most

secret agents in the whole world. "

"We were the world's best drivers. "

"Our accident rate was so low,

that we could drive cardboard cars. "

"Our secretaries played

sports with us. "

"We liked to dance. "

"We liked to march. "

"We were all awfully

fond of the GDR!"

"A country that other countries

could only dream of. "

"I am Tom. The country that others

could only dream of -"

"- and I were always at odds,

ever since the beginning. "

(Alle:
) GDR!

Come on!

"I didn't like the dress code. "

"And the GDR didn't like that

I didn't like the dress code. "

"When I was 12, I was a passionate

collector of rare objects. "

"But my country had no appreciation

for my passion. "

"Our class consisted

of 23 students. "

"And my teacher had resolved that

I would never amount to anything. "

"But then Veit joined our class. "

Friendship!

(All:
) Friendship!

"Immediately after the death of his

father, he and his mother moved to Berlin. "

"She had him sit next to me. "

"Veit was just my number.

Veit was my 24th. "

Music "Der goldene Reiter"

von Joachim Witt

"Veit was reserved, and

didn't talk about earlier"

"Veit was quite different than myself. "

"Nevertheless, we became

the best of friends. "

"We mostly hung out at my place,

listening to Western German radio -"

"- and making stupid movies. "

Oh sh*t!

"And the GDR and I were

still at odds. "

"I had a different perception

of freedom. "

"I had a different

perception of life. "

"I had a different perception

of everything. "

"Then came the autumn of 1989."

"Great political upheavals

were in progress. "

"And the whole world was

watching the GDR."

"And David Haselhoff brought

down the Berlin Wall. "

Hasselhoff:
"Looking for Freedom".

And what now?

I'm going to San Francisco.

What are you going to

do in San Francisco?

I want to see the Golden Gate Bridge.

What?

I want to see the Golden Gate Bridge.

What?

It's the westernmost point

in the world.

After that, there's only water.

And Asia.

"For 23 years, the westernmost point

I had visited was Wernigerode. "

"All of a sudden, I realized:"

"There's no place in the whole world,

that I would rather see -"

"- than the Golden Gate Bridge,

the westernmost point in the world. "

"The place where I would be

the furthest removed from the DDR." Okay!

I'm coming with.

My father said:

You guys are crazy.

And my mother said:

You can't even speak English.

"Moreover, my father hinted

at his skepticism. "

That's a total load of sh*t!

"For our entire lives we had lived

in the same country. "

"Now we could finally go,

wherever we wanted. "

"Unfortunately, we didn't have enough

money for 2 tickets to San Francisco. "

"Rather, only for New York. "

"And so, we began our journey. "

"With 55 dollars in the bag,

a pullover, 3 pairs of briefs, -"

"- socks and soap. "

"And our perfect English. "

Friendship!

(All:
) Friendship!

Madness, dude! Madness!

Next!

Paperwork.

Friendship!

Friendship!

Germany, huh?

Yes.

Yes.

- You're a Nazi.

- No, no, no.

No Nazi.

We are communists, you know?

Free communists, yes?

Free! Frei!

Communists!

Yeah, screw the communists!

Ill-conceived, yeah?

Greg!

Shouldn't we explain instead?

Can you not just shut up?

You sure?

I'm sure!

- Um, sorry, mister officer,

this is, you know -

- we do films...

- Back against the wall!

- Movies, you know? Money, money, money...

- Back against the wall!

Face the wall!

Welcome to America.

Did you see how tall the

buildings are here?

What do they do when the

elevator is out of service?

Take the stairs. It's only

50 floors!

It'd be night before you finished.

Yeah, for you maybe.

Hey, look here!

This guy is skating here!

You're daring, you bird!

Hello! Hello!

How are you, Sir?

Good, fine! Fine, good! Thank you!

New York is a great city and...

Veit! He only means to say hello!

That means hello! Ah!

2 Tickets

San Francisco.

That'll be $320

Ach!

Ah!

320 Dollars!

Okay! Here!

We don't have anymore.

That's all.

55 Dollars?!

That's two tickets to

New Jersey.

"New Jersey"? Okay!

Where New Jersey?

New Jersey.

New York. New Jersey.

Sorry, guys.

Sh*t!

Sh*t!

Sh*t! New Jersey.

Thank you!

We'll just show our films,

until we have enough.

San Francisco won't

get away from us.

I'm hungry again,

for a hotdog.

I know that, right now, what I

want to eat for the rest of my life.

Isn't that great? Hmm?

You alright?

Yeah, sure!

Look here! Our first

American fan.

Stupid dancers!

They're just standing there.

And we only get one

homeless guy. Man!

What would happen if we showed

them the film we made of our homeland?

No one would be interested

in a documentary.

About our sh*t homeland?

We just need to find a better

place to show it.

Yeah! In restaurants or something.

Where people don't have anything -

- better to do than watch

the move.

Exactly! Yeah, and better advertising.

"The filmmaker" lives for the

art of making films...

...ging:
"go".

It's difficult!

Man! How do you say prison?

Here!

What's that?

Back home I wrote down everything

we could possibly need to say.

Anything that we might need.

I'm impressed, Mr. Kleeberg.

Thanks, Mr. Jagoda!

"You have beautiful eyes".

"You have beautiful eyes".

It's possible you could need that.

Oh, look here!

"Your eyes shine like the

stars over X."

Yeah! Where X stands for whatever

state we're in.

"Don't you want to

take off your shirt?"

"I'm a lonely communist,

on the search for love. "

Yeah, I think it's cool.

Here:
"I want to f***

you in the ass. "

I wrote that down?

Show me!

No, you didn't. But you believed

me there for a second.

Woah! Look here! Central Park.

Crazy!

Nuts!

Got some money?

Ah, no - no money, sorry.

But... here! I have crackers.

Hello? Hey dude!

Those are my crackers.

You can't just...

Fine, take the crackers! Sh*t!

Did you bring more crackers with?

"San Francisco".

What?

Dude! It's so cold!

Give it here!

What's that?

What is that?

It's my stuff. I thought:

Your father was dead.

Yeah. He is.

And from who are the postcards?

Hey, dude! You have

a father.

You can't just tell me,

that he's dead.

I'm your best friend. I'm your best friend!

Leave it alone! You lied to me.

For 10 years. Why didn't

you say anything?

Because I wanted to

forget about him!

Sh*t! My father left us.

When I was 12. Since then, I

haven't heard anything from him.

But every year, on my birthday he

sends me a postcard from San Francisco.

Every year!

Postmarked on my birthday.

My birthday is in 2.5 weeks.

I need to be there.

I need to see him.

You understand?

I want to wait in front

of the post office, where -

- he sends these from

That's your plan?

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