What’s on TV this weekend: Deutschland 89 takes us back to the fall of the Berlin Wall
The i 3/5/2021 Gerard Gilbert
Friday
9pm, More4
We rejoin East German spy Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) 36 hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall and this follow-up to the hits
Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86 does a fine job of evoking the excitement, fear and confusion of those times. As Martin tries to reassure his son, Max, that “things will be back to normal soon”, the new reformist government struggles to keep up with events and Martin’s handler Fritz (Niels Bormann) suggests he poisons the freshly installed head of state, Egon Krenz, if Krenz proves too liberal. On the plus side, there’s a potential love interest in the shape of Max’s new teacher, while elsewhere Fritz infiltrates a group of socialists.