Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution
The TV documentary reconstructs the events from May through November 1989 from the perspective of the German Democratic Republic's Politburo. It chronicles the local election fraud, Hungary's border opening toward Austria, the ensuing flood of East German refugees moving via Hungary and Czechoslovakia to West Germany, the pomp and ceremony surrounding the GDR's 40th anniversary, the bungled measures the Politburo took to salvage the crisis, the dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, and the international press conference in East Berlin on 9 November 1989, where Politburo member Günther Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the 'Iron Curtain', a moment that precipitated the collapse of socialism in the GDR and the wider Eastern Bloc.
Director(s)
Jürgen Flimm
Nicolai Sykosch
Claudia Rohe
Cast & Crew
Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution FAQs
The directors of Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution are Jürgen Flimm, Nicolai Sykosch, and Claudia Rohe.
The cast of Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution includes Gernot Duda as Mittig, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger as Anders, Hans Christian Blech as Erich Honecker, Werner Eichhorn as Tisch, Hans Paetsch as Horst Sindermann, Christoph Bantzer as Egon Krenz, Ulrich Matschoss as Hoffmann, 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, and more.
The duration of Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution is 1h 55 mins.
Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution was released on 01 Jan 1990.
Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution is listed under Documentary and TV Movie on Fanbiz.
