
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Cast

Véronique Augereau
Narrator (voice)

Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)
Karl Alich
Self
Günther Grässler
Self

Helmut Müller-Enbergs
Self

Erich Mielke
Self (archive footage)
Bernd Roth
Self
Günter Pelzl
Self
Manfred Springer
Self

Christian Booß
Self

Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Tatjana Sterneberg
Self
Siegfried Reiprich
Self

Wolf Biermann
Self (archive footage)

Stefan Trobisch-Lütge
Self
Angela Marquardt
Self

Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Catherine Stoeblen
Documentation & Support
Barbara Necek
Director, Writer
Cédric Harrang
Editor
Benjamin Hélius
Assistant Editor
Olivier Cohen
Color Grading
Rachel Kahn
Producer
Thomas Dahirel
Production Assistant
Xavier Liberman
Camera Operator
Eddy Gill
Camera Operator
Tito de Pinho
Sound Mixer

Helmut Müller-Enbergs
Scientific Consultant
Jeanne Fabrice
Production Director
Maylis Roussel
Production Manager
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