CinemaOSMovie · 1990 · 1h 28m

Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung

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Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers, its own prisons - the Berlin central complex of the former Ministry of State Security. Workplaces of desk jockeys, hunters, surveillance officers. A labyrinth of human alienation.

Directed byRalf Marschalleck

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 28m
Language
DE
Released
October 7, 1990
Studios
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

Ralf Marschalleck

Narrator (voice)

David Gill

Self

Christoph Merker

Self

Almut Joswig

Self

Friedemann Wittko

Self

Erich Mielke

Erich Mielke

Self (archive footage)

Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self (archive footage)

Creative team
Directed by
Ralf Marschalleck
Written by
Ralf Marschalleck
Produced by
Harald Apitz

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