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.

Genres

Cast

Véronique Augereau

Narrator (voice)

Walter Ulbricht

Self (archive footage)

Helmut Müller-Enbergs

Self

Erich Mielke

Self (archive footage)

Christian Booß

Self

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)

Wolf Biermann

Self (archive footage)

Stefan Trobisch-Lütge

Self

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self (archive footage)