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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Cast
61 people
Eva-Maria Hagen
Marion Stöckel
Known for
Lore
The Silent Star
Wilfried Ortmann
Hasso Teschendorf
Also in
Mit List und Krücke
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Richard Groschopp
Carl Andrießen
Eugen Klagemann
Carola Braunbock
Charlotte Gansauge
Known for
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Lothar Creutz
Karl Drömmer
Fritz Diez
Captain Gerner
Known for
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Ivan Malre
Bob Georgi
Helga Emmrich
Herwart Grosse
Captain Polland
Also in
The Gleiwitz Case
Sunday Drivers
Richard Groschopp Director · Lothar Creutz Writer Carl Andrießen Writer
First release March 6, 1959 · Produced in XG · Languages German, Spanish
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
DEFA
Production
XG
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German · Spanish
Release dates
Germany · March 6, 1959
Theatrical · East Germany
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
May 9, 1959 · TV · West Germany
Hungary
August 4, 1960
Russia
May 16, 1960
Russia
May 16, 1960 · Theatrical
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