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

Yuri Rubanov

Boris Sichkin

General Vladimir Soschkin

Christopher Wynkoop

Martin Jacobs

Matthias Fuchs

Narrator

Klaus Schleiff

Oberst Wolfgang Hecker

Gunter Walch

General Karl Frohm