German reunification assets. Facilitation of economic development through planning measures failed to close the disparity between East and West, not only in terms of the economic opportunity but also housing conditions and transport options. Tölle states that "the initial euphoria about having become one unified people again was increasingly replaced by a growing sense of difference between Easterners ("Ossis") and Westerners ("Wessis")". The fall of the Wall also instigated immediate cultural change. The first consequence was the closure in East Berlin of politically oriented cultural institutions. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the factors described above led to mass migration from
For the First Time (1959 film) "Vesti la Giubba" from "Pagliacci" and the Death Scene from "Otello" for special praise, with Howard Thompson of "The New York Times" calling it the tenor's "most disarming vehicle in years." According to MGM records the film earned $710,000 in the US and Canada and $975,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,685,000. Cesari, Armando. "Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy" (Fort Worth: Baskerville, 2004). For the First Time (1959 film) For the First Time is tenor star Mario Lanza's final film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer six weeks before his death in 1959. Filmed on location in 1958 in Capri, Salzburg, Berlin