| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Eberhard Görner | Crew | Crew | Thanks |
Wolfgang Plehn | Crew | Production | Line Producer |
Christian Klemke | Crew | Directing | Director, Screenplay |
Jan Lorenzen | Crew | Directing | Director, Screenplay |
Peter Hellmich | Crew | Crew | Scientific Consultant |
Jutta Paarmann | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Angela Wendt | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Andreas Christoph Schmidt | Crew | Crew | Thanks |
Inga Wolfram | Crew | Crew | Thanks |
Holger Kouschil | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Solveigh Hardt | Crew | Crew | Thanks |
Anngret Plehn | Crew | Production | Researcher, Unit Manager |
Monika Kaiser | Crew | Crew | Scientific Consultant |
Udo Cott | Crew | Sound | Sound |
Manfred Köhler | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Egon Krenz | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Erich Honecker | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Franz Josef Strauß | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Helmut Kohl | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 John F. Kennedy | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Nikita Khrushchev | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Mikhail Gorbachev | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Walter Ulbricht | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Hans Modrow | Cast | Actor | Self |
Markus Wolf | Cast | Actor | Self |
Günter Schabowski | Cast | Actor | Self |
 Margot Honecker | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
Wolfgang Leonhard | Cast | Actor | Self |
Wolfgang Seiffert | Cast | Self | |
Manfred Gerlach | Cast | Self | |
Alexander Bogomolow | Cast | Self | |
Gisela Schirdewan | Cast | Self | |
Fritz Schenk | Cast | Self | |
Julij Kwizinskij | Cast | Self | |
Werner Eberlein | Cast | Self | |
Pjotr Abrassimow | Cast | Self | |
Gerhard Schürer | Cast | Self | |
Wolfgang Schwanitz | Cast | Self | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
