Coded Message for the Boss

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.

Country:

East Germany

Genre:

Thriller

Duration:

96 minutes

Year:

1979

Director:

Helmut Dziuba

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Company:

DEFA

Cast:
Peter Zimmermann

Wolf Brandin

Karin Düwel

Renate Brandin

Gudrun Ritter

Tante Caroline

Achim Petry

Direktor

Werner Pfeifer

Zweiter Totengräber

Crew:
Helmut Dziuba

Director

Helmut Dziuba

Writer

Gisela Karau

Writer

Günter Karau

Writer

Helmut Bergmann

Cinematography