I was born in the GDR, aka behind the Wall in eastern Germany, where a movie like Star Wars was not shown officially. My father was a big Sci-Fi fan and grew up with guys like S.Lem and other great writers. He went to see ANH in the early 80s in Hungary in English (hardly speaking proper English -they were not too keen to teach it behind the iron curtain ;) with Hungarian subtitles. (A language he did not understand at all.) That's how deep his interest and enthusiasm went. Something he passed on to me and my younger sister. The first VHS we bought after the wall had come down and we had bought the proper equipment, was StarWars...and subsequently, we also bought some books that supposedly continued the saga. It was Timothy Zahn's brilliant
