That is directed by Thomas Brasch who was mainly a poet, and a very good one, living in Eastern Germany. He's one of those people who fled Eastern Germany at some point, but quite late on in his career. And he was now living in the West. And the actor, Hilmar Thate who's also a very good actor who played in that film, Katharina Thalbach was in that film as well. Hilmar Thate was one of those actors who had permission to work in the West. There were a few people whom they trusted to work in the West, because they knew they'd come back. Sometimes there was a bit of pressure. He had his whole family in the East and he couldn't afford to light out on them. But Thomas had started... he was actually living in the West at that point, but only just.

And, there were some very interesting sequences in that film. Like there was a sequence of a robbery in the main power plant of the city, which we staged... I suggested that we stage it a bit like the scene from Metropolis, or something like that. It was almost silent. There was no dialogue, and there was all these staircases and people coming out of trapdoors, and it was very, very well done. Very, very interesting. And then there's a big climax where he's finally cornered by the police and there's a shoot-out, and he's taken away on the back of a donkey cart and all the... or a horse and cart, and all the neighbours are standing around, shouting, 'Berlin is not Chicago! Berlin is not Chicago!'