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90 min
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.
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Walter Ulbricht | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Erich Honecker | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
| Wolfgang Leonhard | Self | Unowned | |
| Fritz Schenk | Self | Unowned | |
| Alexander Bogomolow | Self | Unowned | |
| Gerhard Schürer | Self | Unowned | |
| Wolfgang Seiffert | Self | Unowned | |
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Hans Modrow | Self | Unowned |
| Werner Eberlein | Self | Unowned | |
| Markus Wolf | Self | Unowned | |
| Gisela Schirdewan | Self | Unowned | |
| Günter Schabowski | Self | Unowned | |
| Egon Krenz | Self | Unowned | |
| Julij Kwizinskij | Self | Unowned | |
| Manfred Gerlach | Self | Unowned | |
| Pjotr Abrassimow | Self | Unowned | |
| Wolfgang Schwanitz | Self | Unowned | |
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Franz Josef Strauß | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Margot Honecker | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Edith Baumann | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nikita Khrushchev | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Helmut Kohl | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |