The Wall – Live in Berlin council meeting, and felt they needed some kind of an event to focus attention on it… So I agreed to have a meeting with Leonard Cheshire. And I was very impressed, and said I would do what I could, although I thought it was very unlikely that it would come off… Then, in November [1989], when the wall started coming down, we started negotiating." The show had a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people. Right before the performance started the gates were opened which enabled at least another 100,000 people to watch. While this broke records for a paid-entry concert,
The Fall of Berlin (film) its first public screening in thirty-five years, during the 48th Venice International Film Festival. In 1993, Dušan Makavejev included footage from the film in his picture "Gorilla Bathes at Noon". In 2003, the film was remastered by a company from Toulouse, in a relatively poor quality. In 2007, it was re-released by the American group International Historical Films. No available version contains the Beria scene, though several old uncensored copies of the film appear to exist. The Fall of Berlin (film) The Fall of Berlin (; translit. Padeniye Berlina) is a 1950 Soviet war film and an example of Soviet