Director
Holger Hillesheim
DIRECTOR
Ekkehard Kuhn
Friedrich Kurz
Ursula Nellessen
Ralf Piechowiak
Stars (in credits order)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self - Then CPSU General Secretary
Nick Benjamin
Narrator
Miklos Nemeth
Self - Then Hungarian Prime Minister
Helmut Kohl
Self - Then Federal Chancellor
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Self - Then Federal Foreign Minister
Christian Führer
Self - Pastor of St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig
Milan Kadnar
Self - Then foreign policy advisor, CSSR
Tamara Danz
Self - Rock singer
Egon Krenz
Self - Then Central Committee Secretary and later General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Gusztav Ovari
Self - Border commander Fertörakos
Hermann Huber
Self - Then ambassador
Imre Kozma
Self - Pastor of the Order of Malta
Imre Pozsgay
Self - Reform politician
Oskar Krejcí
Self - Then advisor to the Prime Minister, CSSR
Walter Momper
Self - Then Governing Mayor of Berlin
Günter Schabowski
Self - Then district chief and press spokesman for the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Gyula Horn
Self - Then Hungarian Foreign Minister
Johannes Bauch
Self - Ambassador to Warsaw
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Self - Then Prime Minister, Poland
Nikolai Portugalow
Self - Then Gorbachev adviser
Gerhard Lauter
Self - Then GDR Interior Ministry
Eduard Shevardnadze
Self - Then Foreign Minister, USSR
Manfred Sens
Self - Then border commander
James Baker III
Self - Then Secretary of State, USA
Viacheslav Kochemasov
Self - Then Soviet ambassador in East Berlin
Herbert Wagner
Self - Then Lord Mayor, Dresden