Dear Mister Liefers, why did you make such a mediocre film?
Okay, Axel Prahl has a cameo "something". But the problem here is the 'stuffy man with the hat' Erich (währt am längsten) Honecker, played by Edgar Selge. Mr. Selge sounds nothing like the stammering party leader. There was a chance for an authentic impersonation. Chance was wasted.
Uwe Steimle, who embodies the real Honecker better than anyone else, either didn't get an offer or would have turned it down because of the script, which wants to be documentary and exaggerated at the same time. Please get me right, I know that there are more or less political reasons that prevent the media business from hiring Steimle. No mind, so have it. If you want to please some executives go ahead.
Also Honecker's wife and comrade-in-lemons Margot (Barbara Schnitzler) wanders around incoherently among the people. Unfortunately she does without her violet hair color, which was probably locked up in Wandlitz.
Some fellas do noticible good work. Especially supporting actors, like Kurt Krömer as a salesman of a typical GDR food shop. Still a few things and dialogue lines don't correspond to the conditions of the time:
Thus, the pastor's son describes the winter in the last days of 1989 or early 1990 as "a warm, snowless winter without the slightest chance to go sledding." Although there were a few days with snow in the lowlands. Erich Honecker watches a television program with an outdated military parade. In the year 1990 (!) and so on and so forth.
Well, the sunny winter (or early spring) matter is probably to conceal that the shooting took place in warmer days. The people' shouting "Erich up against the wall! - Erich an die Wand!" is also completely fictitious and shows the common East Germans as stupid jerks. Please ignore the line at the film's beginning, that it is all about a true story. Not really, buddies, not really.
Krömer, Prahl and the young actors who played the sons of the pastor save the film from a 2 rating.
