Ware für Katalonien

Mar 6, 1959

1h 39m

★ 5.0

Overview

At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

DEFA

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Cast

Marion Stöckel

Eva-Maria Hagen

Hasso Teschendorf

Wilfried Ortmann

Charlotte Gansauge

Carola Braunbock

Captain Gerner

Fritz Diez

Captain Polland

Herwart Grosse

Sub-lieutenant Schellenberg

Hartmut Reck

Sabine Falk

Hanna Rimkus

Bob Georgi

Ivan Malré

Johanna Stöckel

Loni Michelis

Ferdinand Stöckel

Heinz Scholz

Eskamillo Lohmann

Peter Kiwitt

Teniente Petro Lopez

Gerd Biewer

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