Ware für Katalonien

Ware für Katalonien

99 mins | Drama, Crime | March 6, 1959

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.

Ware für Katalonien

99 mins | Drama, Crime | March 6, 1959

Ware für Katalonien
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.
Producers DEFA
Original title Ware für Katalonien
Directors Richard Groschopp
Writers Carl Andrießen, Lothar Creutz, Richard Groschopp

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

Hartmut Reck

as Sub-lieutenant Schellenberg

Hanna Rimkus

as Sabine Falk

Ivan Malré

as Bob Georgi

Loni Michelis

as Johanna Stöckel

Heinz Scholz

as Ferdinand Stöckel

Peter Kiwitt

as Eskamillo Lohmann

Gerd Biewer

as Teniente Petro Lopez

Heinz-Dieter Knaup

as Leutnant Hasselbach

Herbert Grünbaum

as Herr Rösli

Charlotte Krulle

as Frau Neubert

Walter Lendrich

as Herr Neubert

Albert Garbe

as Herr Bachmann

Gerhard Frei

as Cement-Otto

Walter Jupé

as Erwin

Marianne Wünscher

as Clerk in exchange office

Marga Legal

as housekeeper

Manfred Krug

as Young optics smuggler

Gerd Michael Henneberg

as executive Director

Gerlind Ahnert

as Employee at Polland

Jean Brahn

as Nappo

Anneliese Reppel

as Older woman

Ralph Boettner

as clerk in the exchange office

Horst Buder

as waiter apprentice

Dom de Beern

as head of operations

Werner Dissel

as Portier

Margot Ebert

as hairdresser

Erich Fritze

as traffic policeman

Paul Funk

as Portier

Hubert Hoelzke

as salesman

Waldemar Jacobi

as Laubenpieper

Joachim Konrad

as patrol leader

Werner Lierck

as truck driver

Günter Margo

as Spanish customs officer

Johannes Maus

as Holzapfel

Herbert Mewes-Conti

as hotel guest

Rudolf Napp

as detective

Hanna Rieger

as wife in Wielandstrasse

Hildegard Röder

as employee of the AZKW

Paul Streckfuß

as salesman

Peter Sturm

as Mr. Dupont

Friedrich Teitge

as Authorized Officer at Rösli

Horst Torka

as employee of the AZKW

Theresia Wider

as Gerzi