The starting point of the story is a scandalous affair that took place in West Germany at the end of the 1950s. It began with the unexpected death of a member of the Bundestag who was known to the public as a well-paid lawyer and influential man in politics. What was not known, however, was that he mysteriously died of poisoning in a foreign hospital for the poor. It was concealed that the deceased, as a contact person for a Swiss arms company, represented a West German arms contract worth 2.5 billion marks. The Military Counterintelligence Service tried everything to conceal the explosive events…
Length 206 minutes
Hannjo Hasse | Gisela May | Gerd Biewer | Jessy Rameik | Horst Schön | Rolf Hoppe | Fred Düren | Martin Flörchinger | Wolf Kaiser | Vera Oelschlegel | Helmut Schreiber | Gerry Wolff | Werner Ehrlicher | Gerd Michael Henneberg | Peter Köhncke | Fred Ludwig | Matthias Molter | Bruno O'Ya | Alexander Papendiek | Petra Hinze | Heinz Scholz | Joachim Pape | Maria Rouvel | Günter Rüger | Karl-Heinz Weiss | Peter Brang | Fritz Mohr | Wilhelm Burmeier | Wolfgang Luderer | Hans-Hartmut Krüger | Sina Fiedler-Engel | Günther Polensen