UK 2D animation directing duo Remus Buznea and Kyriaki Kyriakou (aka Remus & Kiki) clarify the origins of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the toll it imposed on those who tried to escape East Germany, and it’s eventual destruction in 1990.

Produced for TED-Ed and based on a script by Konrad H. Jarausch, the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Client: TED-Ed
Directors: Kyriaki Kyriakou, Remus Buznea
Script editor: Alex Gendler
Animators: Kyriaki Kyriakou, Remus Buznea, Mitko Karakolev
Art Director Kyriaki Kyriakou, Remus Buznea
Composer/sound designer: Ana Roman
Narrator: Addison Anderson
Educator: Konrad H. Jarausch