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Cast

Credited cast:
	Miklós Németh	...	Himself - Prime Minister of Hungary 1988-90
	Gundula Schafitel	...	Herself
	Mathias Rössler	...	Himself
	Uta Koch	...	Herself
	Reinhard Schmied	...	Himself
	Sándor Okányi	...	Himself
	Erika Okányi	...	Herself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	József Gyabronka	...	Miklós Németh (voice)

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Storyline

'1989' is a creative documentary and a high-politics drama about the collapse of the Iron Curtain. A young technocrat, Miklos Nemeth, becomes Hungary's new prime minister to save the country's appalling economy. He decides to remove the expensive border control apparatus from the state budget. A young couple from East Germany is encouraged by the rumours that the Hungarian border to Austria will be opened and decide to make a go for it. But Nemeth's decision has set him up against formidable adversaries and communist hardliners. The young couple are caught up in the political power-game, and the young man is shot dead at the border. This tragic event paradoxically accelerates Nemeth's final decision to open the borders, and soon after the Berlin wall falls.

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