Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

2012 de 0 minutes

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Plot

Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had called itself "the better Germany" for 40 years. Nazi victim and autocrat, bourgeois and power-conscious: Honecker was an ideological hardliner who coordinated the construction of the Wall in 1961 and whose regime was known as an unjust state for Wall deaths, firing orders, the Stasi and forced adoptions. In the wake of the fall of communism, the former model socialist fell into homelessness and found himself on the run in his own country. Suffering from cancer, he managed to evade responsibility before a court by emigrating to Chile, where he died in 1994. This gripping documentary portrays the rise and fall of this contradictory German politician with an impressive array of top-class international and national contemporary witnesses. Erich Honecker would have been 100 years old on August 25, 2012.

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Cast

Lothar de Maizière

Lothar de Maizière

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self

Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi

Self

Margot Honecker

Margot Honecker

Self

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

Self

Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble

Self

Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Shevardnadze

Self

Manfred Stolpe

Manfred Stolpe

Self

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