CinemaOSMovie · 1979 · 1h 36m

Coded Message for the Boss

80%(1)IMDbThriller

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.

Directed byHelmut Dziuba

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 36m
Language
DE
Released
November 29, 1979
Studios
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Peter Zimmermann

Peter Zimmermann

Wolf Brandin

Karin Düwel

Karin Düwel

Renate Brandin

Gudrun Ritter

Gudrun Ritter

Tante Caroline

Achim Petry

Direktor

Werner Pfeifer

Zweiter Totengräber

Lothar Schellhorn

Lothar Schellhorn

Kittelmann

Thea Schmidt-Keune

Lehmannsche

Dietrich Körner

Dietrich Körner

Werner

Piotr Garlicki

Piotr Garlicki

Dr.Baum

Zdzisław Kozień

Zdzisław Kozień

CIA Chef

Creative team
Directed by
Helmut Dziuba
Written by
Günter Karau
Helmut Dziuba

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