Released:
1959-03-06

Overview:
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.

Director:
Richard Groschopp

Runtime:
1h 39min

Genre:
Crime, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Eva-Maria Hagen
  as
  Marion Stöckel
• 
  Wilfried Ortmann
  as
  Hasso Teschendorf
• 
  Carola Braunbock
  as
  Charlotte Gansauge
• 
  Fritz Diez
  as
  Captain Gerner
• 
  Herwart Grosse
  as
  Captain Polland