- Narrator: This is the odyssey of a filmmaker searching for music, fun and colors in the world of ambiguity and suspicion - the world behind the Iron Curtain.
- Narrator: What do you know about life there? What did anyone ever hear about except the grayness, the militarism, and the constant beating of propaganda?
- Karin Schröder: [on finding a musical model]
- [subtitled version]
- Karin Schröder: I only started thinking about someone like Doris Day when a foreigner told me I was the Doris Day of the East.
- Narrator: These movies offered escape, hope and hit songs. They were part of another Socialist mythology, one that offered a positive view: Happiness and the good life.