Coded Message for the Boss
1979•1h 36m•8.0•Released
Thriller
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.
Director
Helmut Dziuba
Writer
Günter Karau, Helmut Dziuba, Gisela Karau
Languages
German
Studio
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast
Peter Zimmermann
Wolf Brandin
Karin Düwel
Renate Brandin
Gudrun Ritter
Tante Caroline
Achim Petry
Direktor
Werner Pfeifer
Zweiter Totengräber
Lothar Schellhorn
Kittelmann
Thea Schmidt-Keune
Lehmannsche
Dietrich Körner
Werner
Piotr Garlicki
Dr.Baum
Zdzisław Kozień
CIA Chef
Christoph Engel
Wagner
Alfred Müller
General
Carin Abicht
Lucie
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