The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. 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.
Cast
Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)
Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Leonhard
Self
Fritz Schenk
Self
Alexander Bogomolow
Self
Gerhard Schürer
Self
Wolfgang Seiffert
Self
Hans Modrow
Self
Werner Eberlein
Self
Markus Wolf
Self
Gisela Schirdewan
Self
Günter Schabowski
Self
Egon Krenz
Self
Julij Kwizinskij
Self
Manfred Gerlach
Self
Pjotr Abrassimow
Self
Wolfgang Schwanitz
Self
Franz Josef Strauß
Self (archive footage)
Margot Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Edith Baumann
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Jan Lorenzen
Director, Screenplay
Christian Klemke
Director, Screenplay
Angela Wendt
Editor
Manfred Köhler
Director of Photography
Holger Kouschil
Executive Producer
Jutta Paarmann
Executive Producer
Wolfgang Plehn
Line Producer
Udo Cott
Sound
Peter Hellmich
Scientific Consultant
Monika Kaiser
Scientific Consultant
Anngret Plehn
Researcher, Unit Manager
Inga Wolfram
Thanks
Solveigh Hardt
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Andreas Christoph Schmidt
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Eberhard Görner
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