Music Video
The video shows Peter Heppner as an ageless camera man who films well-known images of German history:
- The destroyed Reichstag
- Bombed-out cities, a one-legged man limping on his crutches
- Trümmerfrauen (rubble women) salvaging scraps in a bombed-out post-WWII city
- The US "Raisin Bombers" dropping food into the starving West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift
- The soccer Miracle of Bern 1954, widely considered as a watershed moment for West Germany
- The building of the Berlin Wall, families crying as they were divided, the East German soldier Conrad Schumann jumping over barbed wire to defect into West Berlin (a timeless still image that captured the desperation of German Cold War division)
- The German Wirtschaftswunder, with new housings, cars and a new level of luxury
- The Oil Crisis
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The rebuilt Reichstag in central Berlin
The video is a mix of new footage, and original footage where Heppner has been inserted by chroma key.
Paul van Dyk appears only twice, fleetingly on both occasions, initially reading a newspaper, and later listening to the radio in a Pilstube (bar).
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