Stasi: A State Against Its People

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.

• Barbara NecekWriter
• Barbara NecekDirector

• Véronique AugereauNarrator (voice)
• Walter UlbrichtSelf (archive footage)
• Karl AlichSelf
• Günther GrässlerSelf
• Helmut Müller-EnbergsSelf
• Erich MielkeSelf (archive footage)
• Bernd RothSelf
• Günter PelzlSelf
• Manfred SpringerSelf
• Christian BooßSelf
• Erich HoneckerSelf (archive footage)
• Tatjana SternebergSelf