Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)

DocumentaryTV Movie

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.

Directors: Jürgen Flimm, Claudia Rohe.
Writers: Cordt Schnibben, Klaus Poche.

Casts

	Hans Christian Blech as Erich Honecker
	Christoph Bantzer as Egon Krenz
	Dirk Dautzenberg as Erich Mielke
	Friedrich W. Bauschulte as Günther Mittag
	Wolfried Lier as Hermann Axen
	Edgar Bessen as Siegfried Lorenz
	Fritz Lichtenhahn as Hans Modrow
	Ulrich von Dobschütz as Schulz
	Hans Paetsch as Horst Sindermann
	Petra Zieser as Nachrichtensprecherin Angelika Umlauf
	Hanns Joachim Friedrichs as Erzähler
	Günther Flesch as Schabowski
	Rolf Schult as Herrmann
	Kurt Hübner as Hager
	Werner Eichhorn as Tisch
	Walter Stickan as Kessler
	Rolf Illig as Stoph
	Karl-Heinz Gerdesmann as Hänel
	Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger as Anders
	Charles Brauer as Dickel
	Gernot Duda as Mittig
	René Genesis as Danggrieß
	Gerd Heinz as Gorbatschow
	Heinz Lieven as Jahn
	Arno Wüstenhöfer as Mebel
	Ulrich Matschoss as Hoffmann
	Hubertus Durek as Reinhold

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