Rising to the Bait

The story

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.

Cast & crew

Muriel BaumeisterSvetlana

Ben BeckerFunke

Elsa Grube-Deister

Elsa Grube-DeisterAda Fenske

Rolf ZacherZwirner

Wolf-Dietrich BergNaujok

Heinz-Werner KraehkampRaschke

Franziska TroegnerTrude

Udo Walz

Udo WalzRechtsanwalt

Peter Mohrdieck

Peter MohrdieckMajor

Horst RehbergPetersen

Otmar RichterBrehme

Hans Jochen Röhrig

Hans Jochen RöhrigPastor Seidel