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A Heros Death

Heldentod

2001
Germany
TV-Documentary
45 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

TV documentary on the border guard Egon Schultz who was shot in 1964 during the tunnel escape and became a »hero of the people«.

Cast

Participation: Rainer Albertz; Michael Baade; Egon Bahr; Nadine Beyer; Günter Bohnsack; Johannes Fröhner; Regine Hildebrandt; Hubert Hohlbein; Hagen Koch; Thomas Mauch; Siegfried Mechler; Joachim Neumann; Ludwig A. Rehlinger; Jürgen Schreiber; Walter Venedey; Hermann von Berg; Hartmut Wolter

Direction

Director: Britta Wauer

Writing

Screenplay: Britta Wauer

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Randa Chahoud

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Berthold Baule

Production

Producer: Claudia Bissinger; Tanja Ziegler

Editorial department: Selina Riefenstahl; Dieter Zimmer

Post-Production: Andreas Dobers

Companies

Production company: Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG

Commissioned by: Arte Deutschland TV GmbH