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Cast

Michael Mendl, Jürgen Hentsch, Dieter Pfaff, Barbara Rudnik, Matthias Brandt, Michael Quast, Rudolf Kowalski, Ulrich Mühe, Jörg

Team

Director
Oliver Storz

Script
Oliver Storz

Director of Photography
Hans Grimmelmann

Editor
Heidi Handorf

Sound
Wolfgang Wirtz

Music
Klaus Doldinger

Production Designer
Eduard Krajewski

Gaffer
Helge Schwarz

Creative Producer
Winka Wulff

Producer
Regina Ziegler

TV Editor
Doris J. Heinze, NDR - Wolfgang Voigt, MDR

Info

Broadcaster
Das Erste

Length
2 x 90 Min.

In the shadow of power

2003



May 1974: Willy Brandt resigns as German Chancellor two weeks after his speaker Günter Guillaume is outed as an East German spy. In just 14 days, an historical drama featuring power and betrayal, corruptibility as well as high principles is played out. With an excellent acting ensemble featuring Michael Mendl, director Oliver Storz convincingly reawakens the Zeitgeist. Relying completely on the aura of his performers, he portrays, with chamber theatre-like intensity, the end of an era as reflected in the mirror of personal tragedy. With “Im Schatten der Macht”, Storz succeeds in moving beyond the realm of a history lesson to create a moving human and political parable.

This DVD is available commercially.
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