Ware für Katalonien
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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.
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Edited by Helga EmmrichShot by Eugen KlagemannScored by Hans Hendrik WehdingDesigned by Erich Zander
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17 unique people credited
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Eva Maria Hagen
as Marion Stöckel
Hanna Rimkus
as Sabine Falk
Hartmut Reck
as Unterleutnant Schellenberg
Heinz Dieter Knaup
as Leutnant Hasselbach
Fritz Diez
as Hauptmann Gerner
Ivan Malre
as Bob Georgi
Wilfried Ortmann
as Hasso Teschendorf
Loni Michelis
as Johanna Stöckel
Albert Garbe
as Herr Bachmann
Gerhard Frei
as Zement-Otto
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