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and leaves after encountering a stoned Micha, who claims that he has written many diaries about his feelings toward her. The next day, Micha and Mario are called into their headmistress' office, where a Stasi agent informs the pair that the photographs of them urinating on the Berlin Wall made it into West German press. The headmistress berates the pair for disrespecting the sacrifices of the country, and strips Micha of his student stipend, expelling Mario entirely. No longer tied to the city, Mario and
Sabrina begin to journey through the East German countryside. Micha sees Miriam, who reminds him that he promised to let her read his diaries. Caught in his lie, Micha goes home and begins to write many years' worth of diaries. Doris, Micha's mother, carries out a plan to defect to the West using a stolen passport and makeup, but when she is waiting to go through the border, she gets cold feet and changes her mind at the last moment.
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caved in to provide for his new child. Micha is furious and the two fight in the corridor and end up sobbing together. When Micha returns home, he discovers Heinz – who always claimed the asbestos in East German dwellings would kill someone – dead of lung cancer. Here, the family discovers that their neighbor Fromm is not a Stasi agent and actually works for a funeral company. Doris is allowed back into the West for his funeral, and smuggles his ashes back in a coffee can in order to bury him with their mother. Micha goes to Miriam's house and delivers her the diaries, as the young West German man waits outside in his car, growing impatient. As he opens his car door, he knocks
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berates Micha for getting into "the system" for the sake of a woman. Micha is stopped in the street by a rather grumpy
Horkefeld, who it turns out has been demoted to Sergeant for playing contraband music in the presence of a higher officer while drunk at a party. At a black market gathering, Mario meets Sabrina, an existentialist, and feigns an interest in Sartre in order to sleep with her. After a run-in with Mr. Fromm, a sinister-looking neighbor thought by the entire apartment to be a
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approaches them and confiscates the tape, but then announces he is going to make himself a copy. Micha then spies the beautiful Miriam coming out of her apartment building and we find he is madly in love with her. Shortly after, Heinz, Micha's smuggler uncle from the West, visits and harangues Micha over his intention to join the
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caught up dancing to the western music and moving to the border where the soldiers in the guard tower join in, one of whom accidentally shoots off his AK-47 while playing air guitar, making the crowd laugh. The film ends with a long black and white shot of the border gates opened and the street abandoned.
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Nearing the end of his diary forgeries, Micha has a sudden realization about his political beliefs, and reneges on his promise to join the army. As he is leaving, he sees Mario at the recruitment station, who appears to be a colleague of the Stasi agent there – and when questioned, Mario confesses he
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Some time later, Heinz returns, and is pulled aside by a border guard who shows him confiscated material. Later while plugging in a
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agent, Micha's father, Hotte, reveals that he has been provided a telephone due to a bogus chronic illness. The phone rings to their surprise and it's Miriam calling for Micha, who runs to a pay phone in order to have more privacy. Miriam asks him to come up and visit her, but he's stopped on the way
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to it out on the balcony. Below, a crowd of people gathers, looking at them and listening to the music, including
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That night, Mario hosts a party at his parents' house, as they are gone for the weekend. Fueled by drugs, the party becomes raucous, and Micha and Mario escape to the balcony, where they are photographed from the western side urinating onto the border wall below. Miriam arrives to a chaotic scene,
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side of the street in Berlin in the late 1970s. Micha and his friends enjoy contraband records, cassette tapes, and other pop culture yet have little luck with the local girls. While listening to the newest tape Micha has ripped, Sergeant Major
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