Die Sekretäre (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.
- Date of release
- 1999-10-07
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jan Lorenzen, Christian Klemke
Casting
- 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
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