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Coded Message for the Boss
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Coded Message for the Boss

1979-11-29 · 96 min · ★ 8.0

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.

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Directors
Helmut Dziuba
Production companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Countries
East Germany
Status
Released

Top Cast

Peter ZimmermannPeter ZimmermannWolf Brandin
Karin DüwelKarin DüwelRenate Brandin
Gudrun RitterGudrun RitterTante Caroline
Achim PetryDirektor
Werner PfeiferZweiter Totengräber
Lothar SchellhornLothar SchellhornKittelmann
Thea Schmidt-KeuneLehmannsche
Dietrich KörnerDietrich KörnerWerner
Piotr GarlickiPiotr GarlickiDr.Baum
Zdzisław KozieńZdzisław KozieńCIA Chef
Christoph EngelWagner
Alfred MüllerAlfred MüllerGeneral
Carin AbichtLucie

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