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After October 7, 1989, nothing will ever be the same again.
The GDR celebrates its 40th birthday and is to be celebrated triumphantly at the request of Erich Honecker and his Politburo.
Guests from all over the world arrive.
Gorbachev - the great reformer of the USSR - is also among them.
The choreography of power unfolds in East Berlin: tens of thousands of FDJ members stage an impressive torchlight procession.
A military parade is supposed to prove the country's power, but in fact the GDR is on the verge of collapse.
The citizens want a new beginning and freedom.
The first major mass demonstration against the regime takes place in Plauen on October 7.
Things escalate in East Berlin.
The Palace of the Republic - the central venue for the state banquet - becomes a ghostly backdrop.
While the socialist elite celebrate, the people on the streets demand reforms.
As soon as Gorbachev, the bearer of hope, departed, the state struck brutally.
Thousands of peacefully demonstrating citizens are arrested.
But the revolution can no longer be stopped.
In the film, comrades and employees of the State Security, police officers, journalists, civil rights activists and citizens share their views on this historically significant date and their personal stories.
With "Palast der Gespenster", BROADVIEW TV completes the cycle of the films "Wunder von Leipzig" (2009) and "Zug in die Freiheit" (2014).
The 90-minute docu-drama is a co-production with MDR in collaboration with arte and with the participation of MDM and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
