Giants Are Walking Among Us! (16 photos)

Woah! What a crazy, cool street installation! Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch the "The Berlin Reunion", a performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company that lasted a few days. The show commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by "land and sea monsters". The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart.

Members of the street theater group Royal De Luxe ("Lilliputians") lift the 9.5 meter tall Big Giant out of the river Spree in Berlin, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij)

The Big Giant begins his search through Berlin for his niece, the Little Giantess during a street theatre performance on October 3, 2009. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz)

The Little Giantess makes her way down Berlin's Friedrichstrasse on October 2, 2009. (DAVID GANNON/AFP/Getty Images)

The Big Giant makes his way past the Reichstag (Germany's pariamentary building) in Berlin on October 3, 2009. (AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the street theater group Royal De Luxe move the Little Giantess, now dressed in a yellow slicker, in front of the Rote Rathaus in Berlin, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij)

The Little Giantess rides in a boat in front of Berlin's TV tower on October 2, 2009. (DAVID GANNON/AFP/Getty Images)

The Big Giant of the French theatre company "Royal de Luxe" makes his way further down the "Strasse des 17 Juni" in Berlin on October 3, 2009. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

The Little Giantess in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij)

The Big Giant and his niece, the Little Giantess share an embrace as they are reunited once again, in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on October 3, 2009. (AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

The Big Giant and the Little Giantess, newly reunited, sleep in each others' arms in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij)

Little Giantess walks through Berlin, Germany on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The Big Giant is walked by performers on October 3, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The Big Giant and the Little Giantess are lifted into a boat for their departure during the fourth day of a street theatre in Berlin, October 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)

Little Giantess rests on her uncle, the Big Giant as they leave Berlin on October 4, 2009. (BERTHOLD STADLER/AFP/Getty Images)

A reunited but exhausted Big Giant and the Little Giantess rest as they are depart Berlin on a boat on October 4, 2009. (DAVID GANNON/AFP/Getty Images)

via the boston globe