operation-kino:

100 Men Held Responsible for the Disappearance of My Panties (in no particular order)

Daniel Brühl | 16 June 1978 | Actor

Credits include: Goodbye, Lenin!, Love in Thoughts, Joyeux Noel, Inglourious Basterds

“I was surprised that they told me so many positive and nice things about the GDR because my image of the GDR was always dark, sinister, and they didn’t have bananas, we just made jokes about them. You had to wait 10 years to get a car! I must admit that I’ve been very ignorant. Kids in West Germany weren’t really that interested in East Germany. France, Spain, Italy are all closer to us than our own neighbours.The shooting was nice. Like a long, long history lesson. Going to the film set was like going to a museum. We build these things and got all the props, and all the East German actors were sighing and remembering. But for me, everything was new. I learned about these Spreewald pickles and the cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn, who was a hero in East Germany. But in West Germany nobody knew him.” —Daniel about differences between East and West Germany