Philip C. Myers was in West Berlin working on a play when he joked on the telephone with a friend who lived in East Germany.

“I told Bootza, ‘We’re going to tear down this wall tonight. You’ll be able to come over tomorrow.’”

It was Nov. 9, 1989.

“That night, it fell,” Myers, of Hermitage, said of the wall between East and West Germany. “We didn’t know.”

Myers had been invited to be production designer on a play called “Horse” that Jonathan Failla was staging in West Berlin, and hoped to take to East Berlin. The men met while doing art and set work on “Tiger Warsaw,” the Amin Q. Chaudhri film shot in Sharon and the surrounding area in 1987.

He landed in West Berlin on about Nov. 6, his video camera at the ready. There were “glimmers” of what was going to happen, but Myers said he did not expect things to unfold as they did.

Myers shot 24 hours of video, and condensed it to about a two-hour film.

The film shows the Nov. 6 protests that led up to the wall’s tumble.

“I’m not sure what they were protesting,” Myers said. “It felt like there was (danger) but then there wasn’t.”

Myers and Failla got permission from a West German guard to go up to the wall to film on the west side of the Brandenburg Gate. The wall wall’s surface was littered with graffiti.

At one point, a voice from the East German side came over a public address system saying the gate would not be opened. The West Germans started chanting — in German, of course — “tear down this wall.”

Three days later, Myers was at Checkpoint Charlie. In the early evening, very few people were about. He filmed a Frenchman doing some sort of performance piece with skulls on his hands as he danced on the curb that marked the east-west border.

“That’s an act of defiance,” Myers said.

Nearby, someone had scrawled on the wall, “Walls are not everlasting.”

About 90 minutes later, the streets swelled with people. Shortly after, East German cars started driving into West Berlin.