It was also a mixture of some famous people from other countries and rebels from Germany itself.
They spoke of a "glittering ornament" which was "dangling." I remember in I think the 2nd of Hidden Colors, they showed people from minority groups in the US, which included Polish people. They showed 2 groups. One had a lady with straight blonde hair who looked like my violin teacher. The other looked just like someone else, too, with short gray hair, maybe fancied up, kind of big and not very tall but tall enough. She looked content, like people today could too, though it was in black and white. I think it was video footage because I remember the lady walking.
They have been called "poor but sexy." That sounds like My Fair Lady or Pygmalion.
The border guards would chit chat.
Berlin had a rough time relating with Europe.
Here is a picture I found from a movie that came out in 1957 in or representing Vietnam, from IMDb.
Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Colonel Nicholson (left) from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)