Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)
1h 55m
Running Time
January 1, 1990Release Date
Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)
1h 55m
Running Time
January 1, 1990Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Hans Christian Blech
Erich Honecker

Christoph Bantzer
Egon Krenz

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
Erzähler

Dirk Dautzenberg
Erich Mielke

Günther Flesch
Günther Schabowski

Friedrich W. Bauschulte
Günther Mittag

Wolfried Lier
Hermann Axen

Edgar Bessen
Siegfried Lorenz

Rolf Schult
Joachim Herrmann

Fritz Lichtenhahn
Hans Modrow

Ulrich von Dobschütz
Schulz

Kurt Hübner
Kurt Hager

Hans Paetsch
Horst Sindermann

Petra Zieser
Nachrichtensprecherin Angelika Umlauf

Werner Eichhorn
Harry Tisch

Jürgen Flimm
Director

Cordt Schnibben
Writer
