
The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's favorite role of the peasant war hero from Goethe's play "Götz von Berlichingen", plays scenes from his father's life and allows his enormous creative power to shine through. Nothing is left out, nothing glossed over in this story of a man with many facets. Götz George, one of Germany's best-known actors, is at the center of this homage, which is also a reappraisal of the contradictions in his father's life. As the only follower from the acting profession, Heinrich George had to pay with his life. He was not officially rehabilitated until 1998.
Genres:

Götz George as Heinrich George / Himself

Muriel Baumeister as Berta Drews

Samuel Finzi as Oberleutnant Bibler

Martin Wuttke as Joseph Goebbels

Burghart Klaußner as Helmut Maurer

Leonie Benesch as Margot Hanke

Thomas Thieme as Paul Wegener

Hanns Zischler as Max Beckmann

Charlotte Albrecht as Prinzessin Natalie

Marcel Batangtaris as Will Quadflieg

Karl Knaup as Robert Müller

Rike Schmid as Anneliese Uhlig

Rolf Kanies as Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

Monika Gossmann as Maria

Robert Dölle as Erich Konstantin

Thomas Kügel as Wilhelm Fraenger

Laurence Gothe as Jan George

Luis Kain as Götz George

Matthias Bundschuh as Günter Weisenborn

Jan George as Himself

Anneliese Uhlig as Herself

Christian Weisenborn as Himself

Annette Wegener as Herself

Silvia Gronostay as Herself

Horst Jänichen as Himself

Dora Pawlowski as Herself

Giwi Margwelaschwili as Himself

Heinz Fitzner as Himself

Wladimir Gall as Himself

Alexander Wolf as Major Sternberg

Marco Ammer as Horst Caspar

Earl Vincent Sherwood II as US Soldier

Franziska Breite as Maid

Waléra Kanischtscheff as Russian Soldier

Thomas Kornmann as Walter Felsenstein

Stefan Müller-Doriat as Georg

Marco Noack as Gestapo-Man

Paul Schlase as Prisoner

Nils Schulz as German

Yevgeni Sitokhin as Schmyrjow

Martina Ysker as Secretary
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