Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her father’s 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.

2017

1h 29min

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Christa Epperlein
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Uwe Epperlein
Himself
Volker Epperlein
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Udo Grashoff
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Hubertus Knabe
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