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.
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Götz George
Heinrich George / Himself
Muriel Baumeister
Berta Drews
Samuel Finzi
Oberleutnant Bibler
Martin Wuttke
Joseph Goebbels
Burghart Klaußner
Helmut Maurer
Leonie Benesch
Margot Hanke
Thomas Thieme
Paul Wegener
Hanns Zischler
Max Beckmann
Charlotte Albrecht
Prinzessin Natalie
Marcel Batangtaris
Will Quadflieg
Karl Knaup
Robert Müller
Rike Schmid
Anneliese Uhlig
Rolf Kanies
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Monika Gossmann
Maria
Robert Dölle
Erich Konstantin
Thomas Kügel
Wilhelm Fraenger
Laurence Gothe
Jan George
Luis Kain
Götz George
Matthias Bundschuh
Günter Weisenborn
Jan George
Himself
Anneliese Uhlig
Herself
Christian Weisenborn
Himself
Annette Wegener
Herself
Silvia Gronostay
Herself
Horst Jänichen
Himself
Dora Pawlowski
Herself
Giwi Margwelaschwili
Himself
Heinz Fitzner
Himself
Wladimir Gall
Himself
Alexander Wolf
Major Sternberg
Marco Ammer
Horst Caspar
Earl Vincent Sherwood II
US Soldier
Franziska Breite
Maid
Waléra Kanischtscheff
Russian Soldier
Thomas Kornmann
Walter Felsenstein
Stefan Müller-Doriat
Georg
Marco Noack
Gestapo-Man
Paul Schlase
Prisoner
Nils Schulz
German
Yevgeni Sitokhin
Schmyrjow
Martina Ysker
Secretary
