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The Red Chapel
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The Red Chapel

1972-04-09 · 60 min / episode · ★ 8.0

War & Politics · Drama

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.

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Creators
Franz Peter Wirth
Production companies
WDR, Bavaria Film, ORTF, RAI
Countries
France, Germany, Italy
Status
Ended

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Werner KreindlWerner KreindlLeopold Trepper
Georges ClaisseGeorges ClaisseVictor
Rada RassimovRada RassimovMargarete Barcza
Franco GraziosiFranco GraziosiLeon Großvogel
Jacques RispalJacques RispalHillel Katz
Harry R. SokalHarry R. SokalIsisdor Springer
Candice PatouCandice PatouGeorgie de Winter
Jean FranvalJean FranvalGeneral Iwan Alexejewitsch Susloparow
Peter FrickePeter FrickeHarro Schulze-Boysen
Manfred SpiesMakarow
Ruth KählerSophia Poznanska
Edeltraut ElsnerLibertas Schulze-Boysen
Dieter WagnerArvid Harnack
Christine GerlachMildred Harnack-Fish
Hans SchulzeHans SchulzeAdam Kuckhoff
Ursula HerwigUrsula HerwigGreta Kuckhoff
Peter ThomHans Coppi
Karl Walter DiessKarl Walter DiessOberleutnant Grassmann
Philippe LemairePhilippe LemairePierre
Raoul GuyladRaoul GuyladRaichmann

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