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Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.
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Cast
Peter ZimmermannWolf Brandin
Karin DüwelRenate Brandin
Gudrun RitterTante Caroline- Achim PetryDirektor
- Werner PfeiferZweiter Totengräber
Lothar SchellhornKittelmann- Thea Schmidt-KeuneLehmannsche
Dietrich KörnerWerner
Piotr GarlickiDr.Baum
Zdzisław KozieńCIA Chef- Christoph EngelWagner
Alfred MüllerGeneral- Carin AbichtLucie
Details
- Director
- Helmut Dziuba
- Writers
- Günter Karau, Helmut Dziuba, Gisela Karau
- Release date
- November 29, 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Original language
- German
- Studios
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
