Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin (1990) on Netflix
NR19901h 55mDocumentaryMusic
Less than a year after the Berlin Wall came down, the former Pink Floyd singer and composer stages The Wall at its site. A live crowd and a worldwide broadcast watch.
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Plot summary
A benefit performance of The Wall is staged in Berlin within a year of the wall's fall, at the site where the barrier once stood. The singer and composer who once led Pink Floyd performs the concept album with an all-star group of music and film names, following a rock star's slide into madness. The staging adds the Marching Band of the Combined Soviet Forces in Germany, a 100-piece orchestra, a choir of 100 from East Berlin and 150 extras. The broadcast reaches 52 countries, where a reported 500 million television viewers tune in, while a live crowd of 250,000 gathers at the site.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin (1990)
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- During the concert a "wall" more than 160 meters wide and about 25 meters high was erected on stage, and at the end it was demolished down to its foundation.
- In September 1989 the 72-year-old war veteran Leonard Cheshire set up the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, hoping to raise 500 million pounds, 5 pounds for each person killed in the wars of the 20th century. He contacted Roger Waters, who agreed to stage The Wall although he had earlier promised not to perform it until the Berlin Wall was destroyed.
- The show was first planned for Red Square in Moscow, but events moved so fast that weeks later the Berlin Wall fell, and it was decided to stage it there instead.
- The concert of 21 July 1990 took place on Potsdamer Platz, land that had earlier been no man's land dividing East and West Berlin.
