Overview
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
Cast
- Boris Lyoskin as Yuri Rubanov
- Klaus Schleiff as Oberst Wolfgang Hecker
- Boris Sichkin as General Vladimir Soschkin
- Gunter Walch as General Karl Frohm
- Christopher Wynkoop as Martin Jacobs
- Matthias Fuchs as Narrator