Ein brauchbarer Mann
Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in his career. One day, he receives a strange assignment from general manager Zeim. He is to track down the former chief designer Heiner Rudolf in order to take his inventions out of his pocket. Rudolf, ridiculed at the time for his forward-looking work, had taken all his documents with him when he left. Now they are needed to fulfill an important export order. In his search for Rudolf, Uli begins to realize that he, the boy, is being used. He finally finds Rudolf as a gravedigger on the island of Rügen. The encounter reinforces Uli's doubts about the moral integrity of his mission. He gets out and stays there, while Rudolf accepts an offer from the general manager.
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Cast
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Tobias Langhoff
Uli Merkel
Known for
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon Berlin
Rolf Hoppe
Heiner Rudolf
Known for
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Mephisto
Helmut Grewald
Jürgen Wilbrandt
Otto Mellies
Gerhard Zeim
Known for
Back on Track
Brigitte Koppe
Kirsten Block
Ilona Merkel
Known for
The Book Thief
Mute
Kurt Böwe
Fischer Dröse
Also in
The Zernik Murder Case
Jadup and Boel
Anne Kasprik
Kerstin Rudolf
Known for
Troublemakers
Karin Ugowski
Irina Weimann
Known for
Foxtrot
Lore Tappe
Kaderleiterin
Fred Delmare
Also in
In All Friendship
Zur See
Hans-Werner Honert Director · Helmut Grewald Writer Brigitte Koppe Editor
First release October 18, 1989 · Produced in Germany, XG · Production DEFA
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DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
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DEFA
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Germany · XG
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · October 18, 1989
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