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Coded Message for the Boss (1979)
Directed by Helmut Dziuba
Thriller · 1h 36m
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.
Cast
Peter Zimmermann
Wolf Brandin
Karin Düwel
Renate Brandin
Gudrun Ritter
Tante Caroline
A
Achim Petry
Direktor
W
Werner Pfeifer
Zweiter Totengräber
Lothar Schellhorn
Kittelmann
T
Thea Schmidt-Keune
Lehmannsche
Dietrich Körner
Werner
Piotr Garlicki
Dr.Baum
Zdzisław Kozień
CIA Chef
C
Christoph Engel
Wagner
Alfred Müller
General
Crew
- Director
- Helmut Dziuba
- Writer
- Günter Karau, Helmut Dziuba, Gisela Karau
- Editor
- Christa Helwig
Details
- Original title
- Chiffriert an Chef – Ausfall Nr. 5
- Release date
- 1979-11-29
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme