Capital B - Wem gehört Berlin?

EPISODE 2: Period approx. 1991 – 1995: In 1991, the governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen is re-elected. He and the parliamentary leader of the CDU, Klaus Landowsky, the secret puppet master of Berlin politics, dream of making Berlin a world metropolis again. While in East Berlin GDR industry and hundreds of thousands of East Berliners are made unemployed from one day to the next, money-hungry investors from the West hope to make a killing and take risks never seen before. In their slipstream, techno pioneers and squatters are conquering empty factory halls, churches and cinemas in the center of Berlin to live out their utopias on a small scale or simply to party freely. The Love Parade is transformed from a ridiculed event for a few dance-loving enthusiasts to a success story. Berlin becomes the German capital and also applies to be the venue for the 2000 Olympics. This is too much for the citizens of the poor city and drives the left-wing scene to the barricades. The fact that in the eastern part of the new German capital, Nazis are increasingly hunting down foreigners and leftists does not fit into the image of the international metropolis. The government continues undeterred in its plans and is building the concrete symbol of its metropolitan dreams in the heart of the city, at Potsdamer Platz. But Europe's largest construction site on the former death strip can only obscure the fact that dark clouds are gathering in the new German capital.