07/10/1999
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.

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)
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