Documentary

Die Sekretäre

Name: Die Sekretäre
Director: Jan Lorenzen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1999-10-07
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Walter Ulbricht, Erich Honecker, Wolfgang Leonhard, Fritz Schenk, Alexander Bogomolow

October 7, 1999

1h 30m

The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulbricht and Honecker determined the course of the GDR, of course without ever getting out of being a satellite state to the big brother in Moscow. The film looks for the caesura and crucial points in the power game between Ulbricht and Honecker.