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Erich Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German socialist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well after Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976.
Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power. Following the German reunification he successfully evaded prosecution for human rights abuses committed under his regime, finally settling down with his family in Chile in 1993, dying the following year from liver cancer.
Honecker was born on Max-Braun-Straße in Neunkirchen, now Saarland, as the son of Wilhelm Honecker, a coal miner and political activist, who in 1905 had married Caroline Catharina Weidenhof. There were six children born to the family: Katharina (Käthe), Wilhelm (Willi), Frieda, Erich, Gertrud (b. 1917; m. Hoppstädter), and Karl-Robert.
Actors: Féodor Atkine (actor), André Dussollier (actor), Bernard Nissile (actor), Jean-François Delassus (director), Karim Belkhadra (actor), Alain Ollivier (actor), Sophia Morizet (composer), Grégoire Gros (actor), Michel Meyer (writer), Olivier Martin (editor), Jerôme Bellay (producer),
Genres: History,Actors: Fritz Roth (actor), Fritz Roth (actor), Alexander Wadouh (producer), Anika Wangard (writer), Sonja Deutsch (actress), Anika Wangard (director), Hannes Ducke (actor), Nina Caspers (editor), Helmut Buchel (actor), Helmut Buchel (actor), Ernst Günther (actor), Verena Lachenmeier (costume designer), Eberhard Dressler (actor), Eberhard Dressler (actor), Steffi Döhle (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Klaus Manchen (actor), Michael Mendl (actor), Rudolf Kowalski (actor), Hermann Beyer (actor), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Fabian Busch (actor), Samuel Finzi (actor), Peter Fitz (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), George Bush (actor), Lambert Hamel (actor), Ezard Haußmann (actor), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Günter Junghans (actor), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Horst Königstein (director), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Horst Krause (actor), Hermann Lause (actor), Ulrich Noethen (actor), Bernhard Schütz (actor), Uta Schorn (actress), Rosel Zech (actress), Josef Bierbichler (actor), Hans Brenner (actor), Nino Korda (actor), Gerhard Garbers (actor), Hansi Jochmann (actress), Hans-Peter Ströer (composer), Ludwig Boettger (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Wolfried Lier (actor), Friedrich W. Bauschulte (actor), Edgar Bessen (actor), Hans Christian Blech (actor), Dirk Dautzenberg (actor), Petra Zieser (actress), Hans Paetsch (actor), Christoph Bantzer (actor), Heinz Lieven (actor), Ulrich von Dobschütz (actor), Rolf Illig (actor), Fritz Lichtenhahn (actor), Werner Eichhorn (actor), Jürgen Flimm (miscellaneous crew), Kurt Hübner (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: fall-of-communism