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.
Jürgen Flimm
Director
Claudia Rohe
Director

Hans Christian Blech
Erich Honecker

Christoph Bantzer
Egon Krenz

Dirk Dautzenberg
Erich Mielke
Friedrich W. Bauschulte
Günther Mittag

Wolfried Lier
Hermann Axen

Edgar Bessen
Siegfried Lorenz
Fritz Lichtenhahn
Hans Modrow

Ulrich von Dobschütz
Schulz

Hans Paetsch
Horst Sindermann
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