Movie

Coded Message for the Boss (1979)

• November 29, 1979
• 1h 36m

• Thriller

Overview

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.

Director

Helmut Dziuba

Writers

Helmut Dziuba, Gisela Karau, Günter Karau

Starring

Peter Zimmermann, Karin Düwel, Gudrun Ritter