Synopsis
In the early 1990s, as the veil of the Iron Curtain begins to lift, filmmaker Marcel Ophuls points his cameras at East Germany's political rank and file in an effort to uncover the roots behind the communist regime's rapid dissolution. Through a series of hard-hitting interviews that draw out his subjects from their empty, party-line sloganeering, Ophuls dissects the crippling bureaucracy that led to the eventual overthrow of East Germany's government.
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Director
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Marcel Ophüls
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Genre
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Documentary
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Original Language
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English
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Runtime
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2h 9m