Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

The story

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.

Cast

H Hans Christian BlechErich Honecker C Christoph BantzerEgon Krenz D Dirk DautzenbergErich Mielke F Friedrich W. BauschulteGünther Mittag W Wolfried LierHermann Axen E Edgar BessenSiegfried Lorenz F Fritz LichtenhahnHans Modrow U Ulrich von DobschützSchulz H Hans PaetschHorst Sindermann P Petra ZieserNachrichtensprecherin Angelika Umlauf H Hanns Joachim FriedrichsErzähler G Günther FleschSchabowski

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R Rolf SchultHerrmann K Kurt HübnerHager W Werner EichhornTisch W Walter StickanKessler R Rolf IlligStoph K Karl-Heinz GerdesmannHänel W Wolf-Dietrich SprengerAnders C Charles BrauerDickel G Gernot DudaMittig R René GenesisDanggrieß G Gerd HeinzGorbatschow H Heinz LievenJahn A Arno WüstenhöferMebel U Ulrich MatschossHoffmann H Hubertus DurekReinhold