they wouldn't even try! they were lazy women! and we were launching it right at the moment when the berlin wall was coming down. newsreel: the moment berliners have waited 28 years for. - chanting a symbolic breach in the structure that separated millions and claimed hundreds of lives. so, we had launched it in west berlin and it was the usual aesthetic conversation afterwards — the direction, the sets, the acting and so forth. then, we went across and showed it in east berlin, which was the first time any such thing had happened since world war ii, and the audience there was very different. watched it very intently. said, "this was our life," meaning you couldn't trust anybody and people are constantly ratting each other out. so that contract for that