Die Sekretäre
0
90 minutes
10/7/1999
Overview
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 List
Walter Ulbricht
as Self (archive footage)
Erich Honecker
as Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Leonhard
as Self
Fritz Schenk
as Self
Alexander Bogomolow
as Self
Gerhard Schürer
as Self
Wolfgang Seiffert
as Self
Hans Modrow
as Self
Werner Eberlein
as Self
Markus Wolf
as Self
Gisela Schirdewan
as Self
Günter Schabowski
as Self
Egon Krenz
as Self
Julij Kwizinskij
as Self
Manfred Gerlach
as Self
Pjotr Abrassimow
as Self
Wolfgang Schwanitz
as Self
Franz Josef Strauß
as Self (archive footage)
Margot Honecker
as Self (archive footage)
Edith Baumann
as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
as Self (archive footage)