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Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

10.0 115 mins Documentary   TV Movie   1990
Director(s): Jürgen Flimm Claudia Rohe

Release Date: 01 Mon, Jan 1990

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Austria, the ensuing tide of East German refugees to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for transfer to West Germany, the pompous ceremonies at GDR's 40th anniversary, the inept transactions the Politburo took to salvage the situation, the resulting dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, the international press conference in East Berlin on 9th November 1989, at which Politburo member Günther Schabowski erroneously announced the immediate opening of the 'Iron Curtain', which finally led to the collapse of socialism in the GDR and the other East Bloc countries.

Casts of Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

Hans Christian Blech

as Erich Honecker

Christoph Bantzer

as Egon Krenz

Dirk Dautzenberg

as Erich Mielke

Friedrich W. Bauschulte

as Günther Mittag

Wolfried Lier

as Hermann Axen

Edgar Bessen

as Siegfried Lorenz

Fritz Lichtenhahn

as Hans Modrow

Hans Paetsch

as Horst Sindermann

Petra Zieser

as Nachrichtensprecherin Angelika Umlauf

Günther Flesch

as Schabowski

Rolf Schult

as Herrmann

Kurt Hübner

as Hager

Werner Eichhorn

as Tisch

Walter Stickan

as Kessler

Rolf Illig

as Stoph

Charles Brauer

as Dickel

Gernot Duda

as Mittig

René Genesis

as Danggrieß

Gerd Heinz

as Gorbatschow

Heinz Lieven

as Jahn

Ulrich Matschoss

as Hoffmann

Hubertus Durek

as Reinhold

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