Film · 2025

Stasi FC

Name: Stasi FC
Director: Arne Birkenstock
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-03-27

96 min · Directed by Arne Birkenstock

Documentary

6.06
ratings

Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder, and manipulation in a revealing insight into how the Stasi secret police saw football as more than a game.

Cast

Erich Mielke

Self (Archive Footage)

G

Gerd Weber

Self

R

Roland Jahn

Self

B

Bernd Stange

Self

A

Alan McDougall

Self

R

Ralf Minge

Self

B

Bernd Heynemann

Self

B

Bodo Rudwaleit

Self

L

Lutz Eigendorf

Self (Archive Footage)

R

René Müller

Self

D

Dirk Schlegel

Self

S

Sven Friedrich

Self

H

Harald Wittstock

Self

Erich Honecker

Self (Archive Footage)

Crew

Director: Arne Birkenstock, Daniel Gordon, Zakaria Rahmani
Producer: Alex Spatt, Wilson Rivas, Richard J. Berthy, Poppy Dixon, Al Munteanu, Trevor Birney, Arne Birkenstock
Writer: Arne Birkenstock
Editor: Sam Billinge, Henk Drees
Cinematography: Thomas Eirich-Schneider
Composer: Jörg Follert
Sound: Filipp Forberg

Details

Studios: Sky, CORSO Film, Fruitmarket
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Languages: German
Release: March 27, 2025

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