Mit „Bornholmer Straße“ geht die ARD ein Wagnis ein: Sie zeigt den Abend des Mauerfalls am berühmt gewordenen Grenzübergang in Berlin als (Tragi-)Komödie. Regisseur Christian Schwochow („Der Turm“) ...

Der Film in unserem heutigen TV-Tipp erzählt die Geschichte von Harald Jäger, einem Mann, der mit einem Schlag das Vertrauen in alles verliert, woran er sein Leben lang geglaubt hat und als erster ...

We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. This time we will screen the film called Bornholmer Strasse directed by Christian ...

9. November 1989: Günther Schabowski verkündet, dass alle DDR-Bürger ab sofort Reisefreiheit haben. Harald Schäfer (Charly Hübner), Leiter des Grenzübergangs Bornholmer Straße, erfährt dies durch eine ...

The former border crossing at Bornholmer Strasse may have been the spot where the Iron Curtain cracked wide open, but 20 years on there is little in this drab corner of East Berlin to indicate its ...

You've seen all of the famous pictures. But check out these stills taken from SPIEGEL TV television coverage of the opening of the Bornholmer Strasse wall crossing in Berlin East German policemen at ...

November 9, 1989: At the border crossing Bornholmer Straße in Berlin, the border guards of the GDR and their colleagues from the customs authorities wonder about the statement that Günter Schabowski, ...

The essential absurdity of over-determined national borders is an easily parodied fact of modern life. At best (though really, at worst), they take on a sublimely Kafkaesque form: leaving us baffled ...

In the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the East German Army began placing more than 48 kilometers of barbed wire through the center of Berlin, splitting the city into two stark halves. On one side, ...

What is it like to live where one of the most militarised borders in history once stood? The Berlin Wall was torn down 30 years ago this week. Today just three sections of the original 43km-long ...