Crazy Race 2 – Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel (2004)

On November 9, 1989, young Jenny Ecker from Bad Soden am Taunus in Hesse decides to move to East Berlin to be with her boyfriend. Her father, Hans, a wealthy businessman who himself fled East Germany for West Germany many years earlier, is entirely opposed to the idea. On her way to her boyfriend, she is pursued by her father, who initially promises everyone he meets a reward of 100,000 Deutsche Marks for capturing her, and later raises it to a million. The group of pursuers grows rapidly. On the West German side of the inner-German border, Jenny stumbles upon young Volker, who has just climbed out of a tunnel into which he had escaped from East Germany. He had dug it for himself and his friend Franz Huber, who is from Bavaria. Thinking Jenny’s life is in danger, Volker takes her back to East Germany, initially giving up his freedom. They eventually make their way to East Berlin, first in a stolen Trabant and later in a Porsche Cayenne developed by an East German scientist. Volker, now considered a fugitive from the republic, and his companion Jenny are meanwhile pursued by Fräulein, who has been assigned to the task by the new, but also completely overwhelmed, chairman of the Council of State, Egon Krenz. It turns out that Fräulein was once Jenny’s father’s partner, before he fled to the West. Out of frustration, she mercilessly hunts down people fleeing the republic. When Volker and Jenny, deemed enemies of the state, repeatedly manage to escape her, she eventually advances on East Berlin in a tank to catch them. Jenny discovers that her boyfriend in Berlin is a macho with an entire harem. Outside the house, she and Volker are cornered by her father and Fräulein, but manage to get away. Egon Krenz is on his way to Günter Schabowski with the new travel law when he gets caught up in the pursuit of the enemies of the state. During the chase, a barrier stops Krenz just as he is talking to Schabowski on the phone. He therefore shouts, “Open the barriers, let them through at once, come on, hurry up!!” Schabowski takes this far too literally and then announces it in essentially those terms at the famous press conference. The group reaches the Sonnenallee border crossing, where East German citizens are now protesting for the right to leave. Jenny’s father stops Fräulein from firing the tank at Jenny’s car. She orders a retreat, but the tank’s controls fail, and it crashes through the Berlin Wall, ultimately opening the border to West Berlin.