Historic scenes at Berlin Wall

Not only is this movie a true overlooked masterpiece in terms of visuality, it also gives an impressive look at the unfortunate Bernauer Straße, the street whoms houses where divided by the wall. The pedestrian in front of the houses belonged to the french sector while the houses itself where part of the soviet sector and therefore its inhabitants where citizens of the GDR.
In the opening you can see the shot of a memorial for Bernd Lünser, who died in 1961 when he felt from the roof of no. 44 while he was trying to escape from East Berlin as many others did those days jumping out from windows or roofs. As you can see in the opening, the entrances of the houses where the final pieces that remained during the time of the shooting. Given they were replaced by a proper and less fragile wall in 1980 I believe those have to be some of the final moving images of this absurd and teriffying scenery.
Being born not far away from this wall in East Berlin in the late 1980s and now living in the west part of the city, not too far from the 'monster's house' I realize more and more what kind of bizarre situation of seperation dominated the city. I think it was therefore a perfect location for the setting of Possession and makes some of the feeling more vivid that I only know from stories I get told and that I will problaby never fully understand.