Movie: Coded Message for the Boss

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Peter Zimmermann
Peter Zimmermann

Wolf Brandin

Karin Düwel
Karin Düwel

Renate Brandin

Gudrun Ritter
Gudrun Ritter

Tante Caroline

Achim Petry
Achim Petry

Direktor

Werner Pfeifer
Werner Pfeifer

Zweiter Totengräber

Lothar Schellhorn
Lothar Schellhorn

Kittelmann

Thea Schmidt-Keune
Thea Schmidt-Keune

Lehmannsche

Dietrich Körner
Dietrich Körner

Werner

Piotr Garlicki
Piotr Garlicki

Dr.Baum

Zdzisław Kozień
Zdzisław Kozień

CIA Chef

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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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    1979-11-29

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