Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 2, 2012

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany

Production

NDR

Cast

Manfred Stolpe,Mikhail Gorbachev,Eduard Shevardnadze,Gregor Gysi,Lothar de Maizière,Wolfgang Schäuble,Helmut Schmidt,Margot Honecker

Director

Eric Friedler

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2342059