About
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDRpolitics In succession over long stretches even together Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker
Directors
Writers
Producers
Wolfgang Plehn, Jutta Paarmann, Holger Kouschil
Studio
Pro Vobis Gesellschaft für Film und Fernsehen MDR
Original Language
German
Cast
Full credits →W
Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)
E
Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
H
Hans Modrow
Self
M
Markus Wolf
Self
G
Günter Schabowski
Self
E
Egon Krenz
Self
F
Franz Josef Strauß
Self (archive footage)
N
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
J
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
M
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
H
Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage)