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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Eva-Maria HagenMarion Stöckel
Wilfried OrtmannHasso Teschendorf
Carola BraunbockCharlotte Gansauge
Fritz DiezCaptain Gerner
Herwart GrosseCaptain Polland
Hartmut ReckSub-lieutenant Schellenberg
Ivan MalréBob Georgi
Peter KiwittEskamillo LohmannExplore the crew
- Director
- Richard Groschopp
- Writer
- Richard Groschopp
- Writer
- Lothar Creutz
- Writer
- Carl Andrießen
- Editor
- Helga Emmrich
- Original Music Composer
- Hans-Hendrik Wehding
- Director of Photography
- Karl Drömmer
- Director of Photography
- Eugen Klagemann