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Coded Message for the Boss (1979)

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.

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Top billed cast

Peter ZimmermannWolf Brandin
Karin DüwelRenate Brandin
Gudrun RitterTante Caroline
Achim PetryDirektor
Werner PfeiferZweiter Totengräber
Lothar SchellhornKittelmann
Thea Schmidt-KeuneLehmannsche
Dietrich KörnerWerner
Piotr GarlickiDr.Baum
Zdzisław KozieńCIA Chef

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