From Berlin , regional trains run from Alexanderplatz more or less hourly for around 40 euros ( about $ 60 ) . Gorlitz was the film set for ` ` The Reader , '' ` ` Grand Budapest Hotel '' and ` ` The Book . '' President Harry Truman , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin negotiated the partition of post - war Germany at Cecilienhof . Nikolaikirche was the birthplace of the East German movement that instigated the collapse of the Berlin Wall .
Gorlitz was the film set for ` ` The Reader , '' ` ` Grand Budapest Hotel '' and ` ` The Book . '' President Harry Truman , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin negotiated the partition of post - war Germany at Cecilienhof . Nikolaikirche was the birthplace of the East German movement that instigated the collapse of the Berlin Wall .