Erich Honecker
Birthday: 1912-08-25
Place of Birth: Neunkirchen, Germany
Biography: Erich Honecker was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989.
Movies
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...
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Palast der Republik – Haus des Volkes
A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin....
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Die Sekretäre
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In ...
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Martin Luther
Using some unique documents and pictures, this colour film shows the life and work of Martin Luther ...
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Return to Dresden
In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient ci...
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race....
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This Ain't California
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...
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Everything's a Lie
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does...
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Stasi FC
Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder...
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Stasi, un État contre son peuple
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
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Waiting for Fidel
This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making t...
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The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist time...
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Honeckers letzte Reise
25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insigh...
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Manöver Waffenbrüderschaft
Documentary about a military manoever involving all the armies of the Warsaw Pact....
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Who Loves the Earth
A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in...
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