Encrypted to boss - failure no.5

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Movie
Original title Encrypted to boss - failure no.5
Country of production German Democratic Republic
original language German
Publishing year 1979
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Dziuba
script Helmut Dziuba,
Gisela Karau ,
Günter Karau
production DEFA
music Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera Helmut Bergmann
cut Christa Helwig
occupation

Encrypted to boss - failure no. 5 is a spy film from the GDR that was shot in 1978 and 1979 and was released in November 1979 in the GDR. The film is also known as The Dead Eyes . The English title is Code for the Boss: Sorty No. 5 .

action

The East Berlin student of electrical engineering Wolf Brandin occasionally visits his aunt in West Berlin in the late 1950s to get a prosthetic ointment for his sick father. Since he is currently completing an internship in an armaments factory, he has a western ban, which he violates with these visits. On the occasion he is recruited by the CIA , which uses the violation of the Western prohibition against him as leverage. He reports this to the GDR State Security Service and deals with the advertisement on their behalf. At the CIA he is now listed as number 5 .

The double life demands all your strength physically and mentally. During the day he leads his normal life in the east with his wife and child, at night he is supported in the west by his superior Dr. Baum trained as an agent. A marriage crisis ensues, and after the death of Wolf's father, his supervising officer Werner from the State Security Service, who has since become a friend, decides to take Wolf's wife into her trust.

Due to the marital crisis and the death of his father, the connection with Dr. Baum came, but can reactivate him with the help of a private dead mailbox that he set up especially for number 5 in an old Jewish cemetery in East Berlin without informing higher authorities. In the summer of 1961, the CIA increasingly used him for operational work in the GDR area. Wolf uses his position to protect the state border on August 13 ( construction of the wall ).

characters

Wolf Brandin
Student of electrical engineering, is in the last phase of his studies and starts to write his thesis. He is currently completing an internship in an electronics company that is working on orders for the NVA . He reports the recruitment by the CIA to the authorities in the GDR and begins a life as a double agent. He is trained in radio technology, shooting and hand-to-hand combat by the CIA. Life as a double agent burdens him so much that he lets his thesis drag on and a marital crisis arises because he is not allowed to talk to anyone, including his wife, about his work.
Renate Brandin
Wolf's wife. After the birth of her daughter, she breaks off her studies and works from home. She loves Wolf very much and is very worried when his behavior changes so suddenly and he is changed. Despite the crisis, she supports him in writing his diploma thesis by performing calculations. She is the only one who is still in contact with Wolf's father shortly before his death. After being involved in Wolf's activities by Werner, she helps him with this.
Werner
is Wolf's contact officer at the MfS . He is the one who convinces Wolf to go into the recruitment of the CIA on behalf of the MfS and keeps control of this operational process at all times. He develops a fatherly relationship with Wolf and often has his back free.
Dr. tree
is Wolf's supervisor and instructor at the CIA. He is a Germanist and philologist and was trained in statistics, information processing and analysis at the headquarters of the CIA in Langley for two years. He is very enthusiastic about Wolf and develops a personal relationship with him. In the event that something happens, he sets up a dead letter box especially for Wolf in an East Berlin cemetery, without involving higher officials.
Aunt Caroline
is Wolf's aunt who runs a bar in West Berlin. She is not enthusiastic about the political views of her brother (Wolf's father) and believes that you have to see where you stay. Nevertheless, she comes to her brother's funeral.

background

The film was the basis for the novel Go or Doppelspiel im Untergrund by Günter Karau , published in 1983 by the GDR military publisher . In contrast to the book, the CIA agent Dr. Baum is not a Go player, but an aquarist and friend of the fine arts. In addition, the novel contains a second narrative thread in the early 1980s, which is completely missing in the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on http://flimmerkiste.bplaced.net/ , accessed on January 19, 2011