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“Always following the line, along the railway tracks, from the underground to the heights of Kreuzberg to the final stop, just before the Wall, the Schlesisches Tor, Peter Adler and Hans-Jörg Reinel observe the movements of the people who are drawn and spat out by this lifeline. The dramaturgy is determined by the movement; the stories arise from the objects found at the stops. Random observations and mood pictures are anchored in sociographic investigations of the service staff. Berlin's pulse is felt between opera culture and the "Orient Express" exoticism. The rhythm is constantly changing, the colors change, new dialects and languages reach the ear. With Francois Galvani's wistful saxophone sounds, one is drawn into this movement, this urban adventure along Line 1. How dazed one finally emerges after these impressions, these many big and small stories.... A picture of Berlin that does without any whitewashing or incense tones, that gains an exciting tension from its harsh contrasts....” Thomas Thieringer in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” of 1.9.1987