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.
Véronique Augereau
as Narrator (voice)
Walter Ulbricht
as Self (archive footage)
Karl Alich
as Self
Günther Grässler
as Self
Helmut Müller-Enbergs
as Self
Erich Mielke
as Self (archive footage)
Bernd Roth
as Self
Günter Pelzl
as Self
Manfred Springer
as Self
Christian Booß
as Self
Erich Honecker
as Self (archive footage)
Tatjana Sterneberg
as Self
