Stasi: A State Against Its People
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Cast
Véronique Augereau
Narrator (voice)
Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)
Karl Alich
Self
Günther Grässler
Self
Helmut Müller-Enbergs
Self
Erich Mielke
Self (archive footage)
Bernd Roth
Self
Günter Pelzl
Self
Manfred Springer
Self
Christian Booß
Self
Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Tatjana Sterneberg
Self
Siegfried Reiprich
Self
Wolf Biermann
Self (archive footage)
Stefan Trobisch-Lütge
Self
Storyline
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
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