Erich Honecker, leader of the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989. The film follows not only his demise as head of state, but the story of what happened next. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing with his apparently unrepentant widow, will receive its UK premiere next week. There is a dramatic epilogue to the story of the GDR, where the two sides of the ideological divide had to come to terms with the fact that they were basically also human contemporaries." - —Bernhard Fulda The Fall: The End Of Honecker , follows the story of the man who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until its collapse in 1989, before escaping judicial prosecution for human rights abuses and his alleged involvement in the deaths of 192 East Germans who were trying to escape to a new life in the West. It will be shown at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on Monday, 21 May, and will be followed by a discussion with the director, Eric Friedler. Although Honecker himself died in 1994, the documentary has created a sensation in Germany, because of an it features with his widow, Margot. Now 84, the former first lady of the GDR broke a 20-year silence when she consented to an with Friedler. What she had to say has stupefied many Germans. Honecker is shown remorselessly defending the regime, idealising the "lost nation" and describing its demise as "a tragedy".
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