The invisible visor
| Television series | |
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| Original title | The invisible visor |
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| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1973 - 1979 |
| length | 60-90 minutes |
| Episodes | 16 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Adventure series |
| Theme music | tentacle |
| idea |
Herbert Schauer Otto Bonhoff |
| production |
DEFA studio for feature films for television in the GDR |
| music | Walter Kubiczeck |
| First broadcast | from December 23, 1973 to GDR 1 |
| occupation | |
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The invisible visor is a 16-part German television series by Peter Hagen . It was through the DEFA Studio for Feature Films for the GDR television produced in the years 1973 to 1979, and was created in collaboration with the Ministry of State Security of the GDR .
General
The individual parts lasted about 75 minutes each and made up a coherent episode sometimes in twos, sometimes in threes. In the first season (episodes 1-9) the novel book series of the same name by Herbert Schauer and Otto Bonhoff was the template for the script they also wrote. The second season (episodes 10-16) and the subsequent miniseries Feuerdrachen wrote Michel Mansfeld (pseudonym of Colonel Günter Halle , head of the agitation department of the MfS from 1957 to 1975). There are no novel templates for the second season and the series Feuerdrachen . The outside of the series z. The film music used , for example, for performances by the television ballet comes from Walter Kubiczeck . It was the first to be put on an LP (long-playing record) in the GDR.
The main actor in the espionage series was initially Armin Mueller-Stahl , who fell out of favor in 1976 because of his protest at the expatriation of Wolf Biermann . 1980 Müller-Stahl left the GDR. Since 1977 Horst Schulze had the leading role in the television series; Jürgen Heinrich , who was also known in the West after the fall of the Wall, also played in the MfS team .
With a participation rate of well over 50% in the GDR, the series was very successful. Of the 16 episodes, four achieved a quota of over 50% and nine a quota of over 40%. The most successful episode was Das Wasserschloss , with a 58.3% participation rate. The result with the lowest visual participation (36.4%) was a strange attack . With the departure of Armin Mueller-Stahl, the popularity of the series generally declined.
In 1979 the collective with Otto Bonhoff , Peter Hagen, Ottomar Lang, Dr. Michel Mansfeld, Wenzel Renner and Herbert Schauer awarded the Order Banner of Labor Level I.
action
First season, first episode (episodes 1–3) from 1973
The first episode tells how Werner Bredebusch (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is recruited as a scout for the Ministry for State Security (MfS). The transport pilot Werner Bredebusch, a member of the 11th Transport Fliegerstaffel, defected to the Soviets for reasons of conscience during the Second World War and became the Front Commissioner of the National Committee for Free Germany when he was a prisoner of war . After the establishment of the MfS in 1950, he was won over for it and was given the task of assuming the identity of the fallen fighter pilot Oberleutnant Achim Detjen from Hamburg. Bredebusch alias Detjen arrives in the Federal Republic of Germany in a return train.
The real Detjen is guilty of a war crime in France and is therefore wanted by the French occupying forces. But before a command of the French military police can locate Bredebusch alias Detjen, he is intercepted by a secret organization that has set itself the task of intercepting returning war criminals and National Socialists and thus protecting the “old comrades” from persecution. The organization is later explicitly called ODESSA , the organization of former SS members. With the help of this organization, the scout arrives on the “Roman route” via Italy to Argentina , where he can gain the trust of Colonel Krösing, Detjen's former squadron chief.
In the second episode, Detjen experiences adventures in the South American jungle and learns that the old National Socialists are planning to play a role in the future establishment of the Bundeswehr . The French journalist Charles André is on the trail of these "wolves". Detjen is tasked with pursuing him, but warns him of a trap and wins his trust. He then passes him further revealing material, but asks him not to mention his name in his report. At the end of the episode, the journalist is killed by the wolves' thugs.
In the third episode Detjen comes with Krösing in 1951 in the Federal Republic of Germany , where they for the "office of the official of the Federal Chancellor for the related to the Strengthening of Allied Troops issues," the official Blank , the predecessor of the Ministry of Defense of Federal Republic of Germany, work. Krösing introduces Detjen to West German society, which was permeated by National Socialists. Detjen also got in touch with his two supporters, the Frankfurt photographer Winni Winkelmann and the corvette captain Wendland. These help him in his work and enable the transfer of the knowledge he has gained.
A first major task for Detjen is to help organize a secret meeting at a moated castle, where the armament of West Germany is discussed. Detjen sends copies of the meeting minutes to the MfS (a slightly disguised reference to the Himmeroder memorandum ). Thus the radio of the GDR - the German broadcaster - was able to publicize the West German machinations on August 11, 1951, much to the displeasure of the old / new military in the West.
The sequence of the third part from 1:15:05 to 1:15:46 is interesting. To the left of the National Front building, two GDR flags with emblems can be seen. This flag did not exist until after 1959; but the International Press Conference mentioned in the film took place in 1951.
First season, second episode (episodes 4-5) from 1975
In the summer of 1958, a Portuguese liner crashed while flying from Lisbon to Porto. Two German citizens traveled on board, one of them was Ministerialdirigent Dr. Franz Hohlfeld from the Federal Ministry of Defense . The news triggers an alarm in Bonn: they fear an attack for political reasons. MAD General Gert von Wieseneck does not even dare to entrust one of his own employees with the case. He asks his father-in-law, Colonel Krösing, for the help of his adjutant, Major Achim Detjen, who is reliable in delicate matters. Detjen travels to Lisbon as an insurance detective in order to be able to investigate undisturbed and discreetly. Wieseneck follows his activities from the German embassy.
There were already problems on the first day: Portugal Airways refused to provide the exact passenger list, and while visiting the scene of the accident, three Americans - John, Stan and their boss Cliff, who were also responsible for the attack - attempted to murder Detjen. He can just get away with his life. From the employee of Portugal Airways, Isabella Solano, he learns that there was a passenger who bought a ticket for the plane but did not board. Nevertheless, he was found among the dead at the scene of the accident. Detjen picks up the trail of Rafael Lupus. He finds out that he was a truck driver at the Ethnographic Museum. In the museum, on the one hand, he meets the somewhat strange director Prof. Godiva, on the other hand, he notices living eyes watching him behind an exotic mask.
At the police station, Detjen learns that the luggage of his "client", the businessman Lüders and that of Dr. Hohlfeld have already been picked up by the embassy. When he told von Wieseneck about it, Wieseneck seemed to explode: it was none of them, so the suitcases fell into the wrong hands! Detjen senses that something is wrong with Lüders, so he also investigates his case.
Through Isabella - with whom he spends a night - he receives a message from the Americans: he should meet with them or their boss. They offer him the full fee that his company owes him if he said in Germany that an unfortunate accident had happened with the plane. Otherwise he would not leave Portugal alive. Detjen apparently goes into business. However, before he even got on the plane, he jumps out of the shuttle bus and disappears.
A German named Herzog is waiting for him at Isabella's, who accompanies him to his “old comrade” from captivity, Born. He explains the whole situation to him: his company and the US company Interarms are fighting over the Portuguese market. Both want to sell weapons to Portugal, which the country needs in its dirty colonial war. Interarms wanted to take revenge on Born's employee Lüders, who has almost closed the deal. Dr. Incidentally, Hohlfeld also negotiated with the government - about an ultra-modern and secret NATO air force base ring in Portugal .
To defuse the explosiveness, CIA agent Wilson comes to Lisbon. He wants to whistle back the interarms, but can not get his way, because society has the suitcases, and thus the greatest asset in its hand. Detjen tries to find them in the museum, but is caught and dragged into the interior of the country. When Wilson prevails at the Interarms headquarters with the help of the Pentagon, the Interarms have to release Detjen. In the meantime Isabella found out where the suitcases are - on board Prof. Godiva's yacht or the Interarms. Detjen seizes the luggage, pretending to be the boss's courier, Mrs. Godiva. So he can look at the whole material and photograph the hollow-field papers on microfilm. Later he hands the suitcase to Wilson. Detjen travels back to Bonn with Wieseneck in his courier machine, where he gives the microfilm to Winnie Winkelmann, who then sends it to East Berlin.
First season, third episode (episodes 6-7) from 1975
CIA agent Wilson has a new assignment for Achim Detjen: he is to find out what the Lofthuser district, consisting of Nazi scientists, researched in Norway during the war.
ODESSA's man Born, who had to disappear from Portugal and now lives in Germany again, receives the same order. His people carry out a fictitious kidnapping of the daughter of a former member of the Lofthuser district, Dr. King. When the king drives away to hand over the ransom, Duke enters his house and steals a slip of paper with numbers. When Christine König is found healthy again, the matter becomes opaque: one suspects industrial espionage behind it: König has just developed a new radio measuring probe. The Ministry of Defense sends Achim Detjen to Staufen . The trail leads him to the Frankfurt Rhein-Main detective agency, the Born organization.
Born explains to Detjen that they are not interested in the probe, they are only concerned with the activities of the Lofthuser district. Incidentally, the note contains the location of a container sunk in 1945 in the Skagerrak , which contains all the material of the circle. Since the district has apparently discovered oil fields in the North Sea, two large US oil companies are also interested in the container.
Born organizes an expedition with deep-sea divers to lift the container off Oslo. The competition reveals this plan to the police on the grounds that there is drug in the container that should be smuggled into Norway. The police eventually seized the container, but the competition stole it. Detjen finds the hiding place with the help of Winnie Winkelmann, so both can inspect the material. Winkelmann photographs every file and every card and then leaves the container to Born's people. With one exception: there were also warfare agent samples among them. Detjen makes this disappear into a fresh concrete foundation on a construction site.
First season, fourth episode (episodes 8-9) from 1976
Detjen comes under suspicion this season because his department head, Colonel Brinkmann, wrote a report that could thwart the plan of the "old comrades". This plan provides that the military and political conditions in Eastern Europe should be changed in favor of the West. As an instrument that should NATO - maneuvers "Checkmate" serve, which will take place in the summer of 1961 in Germany. During a staff exercise in the Lüneburg Heath, Detjen realizes that a targeted provocation is to take place in the GDR territory during the maneuver, so that the whole of NATO can launch a “retaliatory attack”. The plan appears to Air Force Colonel Brinkmann too daring and insufficiently thought out, which is why he wants to make his report, in which he warns against such operations, public at NATO headquarters. He suffers the same fate as other uncomfortable ghosts before him: the ODESSA lets Born kill him. However, his report cannot be found.
Due to an intrigue, his adjutant Detjen is sent to Brinkmann's hunting lodge to find him dead. One hopes he might know where his former boss hid the paper. The GDR scout finds himself in a difficult position: he has to find the secret manuscript for his client in East Berlin, on the other hand he also has to dispel suspicions about himself. Not enough with that, the former childhood sweetheart of the real Achim Detjen also turns up. That means alarm: the GDR secret service is organizing an escape route that Bredebusch can use at any time if he is in danger. When he finally discovered that Brinkmann had microfilmed his manuscript and hid it in a painting that hung in his hunting lodge, it seemed too late - the hunting lodge was looted by burglars. A race against time begins because Born's people are following the same lead.
Bredebusch can finally find the painting in a disused factory building and secure the micrographs. Shortly afterwards, a fire breaks out in the factory, Detjen who is leaving throws his watch and identification tag into the fire, where Born's people identify him as dead. At this time Bredebusch is already on his way home, where he has just arrived on the day the wall was built. At this time, the mood in Bonn was bad - CIA agent Wilson tried to relax by having dinner with Ministerialratin Felicitas Eichhofer. After the meeting, the elegant lady reports: "Contact made". She is the successor to Achim Detjens in Bonn as a scout for the GDR secret service.
Second season, fifth episode (episodes 10-12) from 1977
GDR scout Martin Tanner can observe a meeting between ODESSA boss ("Consul") Fritsch and the South African agent Nora Elferink in Munich. There are some indications that the Federal Republic and the apartheid state are unofficially preparing a cooperation in the field of nuclear technology. South African Mining Ltd. is based in Pretoria. the partner of the Germans - a company whose general manager van Straaten is also head of the all-powerful secret organization Afrikaanse Broederbond . The Brotherhood holds all the strings together in South Africa , and even the dreaded secret service BOSS is a slave to it.
The German engineer Jürgen Machholz works in the research laboratory of South Africa Mining. He is infected with the latest chemical warfare agent in a fictitious industrial accident. His boss, Dr. Hunold, explains it to him and asks him to go back to Germany quickly so that he can be cured there. Machholz also takes an ampoule of the warfare agent with him. However, he notices that BOSS is on his trail. So he sends the ampoule to his wife.
BOSS contacts MAD General von Wieseneck, who entrusts Born's organization with the Machholz case. The renowned Frankfurt lawyer Dr. Arnold Clemens advises the general on legal issues relating to the negotiations with South Africa. Dr. But Clemens leads a double life: he is the head of the GDR scout group "invisible visor", so (also unofficially) head of Martin Tanner and contact person for Ms. Eichhofer, who is also part of the South Africa delegation. Clemens learns about the Machholz case, but not yet the whole truth. At the same time, Ms. Eichhofer found out that one of her colleagues in the ministry in South Africa was negotiating cooperation on building an atomic bomb.
When Eva Machholz wants to pick up her husband at Frankfurt Airport, he recognizes the BOSS agents and Born's people. He goes out without greeting anyone and tries to shake off his pursuers. With the help of Martin Tanner he manages to escape a few times, but ultimately he cannot fight the poison. He speaks everything he knows about his company and the illegal experiments on tape, then he dies in Frankfurt. Only Tanner knows of his death, who makes Machholz's papers disappear so that no one can track him down.
The ampoule and the evidence against South African Mining are now with Eva Machholz, but she is well hidden. Born's people and BOSS therefore persuade her to come to South Africa with them (officially: to see her husband again, unofficially to serve as a decoy). On the plane she is accompanied by Dr. Clemens recognized, who sensed danger, and therefore asked Tanner to follow suit as quickly as possible.
In South Africa, CIA agent Wilson makes contact with Clemens. The USA also wants to know what South Africa and the Federal Republic are secretly negotiating. Tanner quickly wins the sympathy of the CIA man, who “rewards” his “comrade” with an American passport. Tanner is also smuggled into a secret event organized by the Brotherhood, although his cover is soon exposed and he has to flee. He finally finds Eva Machholz and can explain to her what really happened to her husband. At a company party, the scouts can bring Ms. Machholz to safety, she flies to Warsaw on the first plane (and with Tanner's US passport). Laboratory chief Dr. Hunold sees no other way out than to blow up himself and the entire research laboratory. A big head roll begins at BOSS and the brother association. The scouts, however, can celebrate: they have transmitted all information about nuclear weapons negotiations and warfare agents to East Berlin.
Second season, sixth episode (episodes 13-14) from 1978
Dr. During his trip to the USA, Clemens learns that the CIA has been systematically infecting US citizens with psycho drugs for years and that the secret service is willing to test its latest drugs under German conditions. Captain Wendlandt, now in the Federal Armed Forces procurement office, has to find out how these tests are to be carried out in Germany. The young scout Alexander, meanwhile, has to track down CIA agent Wilson, as Clemens suspects him to be behind the action. The CIA plays a double game: it lets the BRD secret services know about their plan, but tells them only half the story. And that's not all, the US is also refusing to hand over the new drug.
Firstly, there is the drug KK-33, which can be used in larger quantities and has an effect on several people. This effect starts as a normal flu, but ends with a seizure - the patient rages and lashes out, reacting to everything with violence (this is why Wilson calls the drug "King Kong flu"). The harsher agent, KK-333, can only be used on individuals who may even commit suicide under the effects of the drug. However, since the drug is not yet fully developed, the result depends on the personality influenced.
The official part of the CIA test is an infection of a Bundeswehr battalion in Münster. During the investigation, carried out by Born (now a BND man), it turns out that the official CIA agent is not a drug, but a harmless drug. So the Americans tricked Born and von Wieseneck. In reality, Wilson's attractive assistant Lorna had brought the drug to the soldiers.
Lorna is also the one who runs the other company. The target property for KK-33 is the small Spessart town of Grünreuth, for KK-333 the building contractor Alois Leutwiler. His supposed friend, the CIA agent Kelly (always dressed in a noticeable checkered hat) collected incriminating material against the latter. Leutwiler is systematically blackmailed with his private life and his illegal speculations. When he finally learns that his daughter Georgia is actually Kelly's daughter, he sees no way out. Then Kelly gives him the drug.
Clemens got to know Kelly during his trip and sends Alexander on his trail. He found the CIA man in Grünreuth and quickly made contact with Georgia Leutwiler. He can find out that the CIA wants to infect the holy water in the church during a big festival in Grünreuth in order to get as many test objects as possible. Alexander can break into Kelly's briefcase, so he comes into possession of two tablets from the antidote.
Born and Wieseneck, meanwhile, suspect the CIA. You notice their activity in Grünreuth. This is inconvenient for the Germans, because in the castle above the small town there is the Bundeswehr's secret psychodrug warehouse. Born starts the investigation in Grünreuth, finds Lorna's trail, who falls from a roof while trying to escape, after she had already infected the holy water.
Alexander and Georgia pour out the holy water, but become infected with the drug. Alexander gives the girl one antidote tablet, but hides the other one - when he feels that the drug is working, he locks himself in his room and waits until he is cured. Clemens can send such a tablet to East Berlin.
Kelly is more successful at Leutwiler - the ruined entrepreneur locks himself in a hut on the site of his quarry and blows himself up with the dynamite that is hoarded there. The explosion also destroys the Bundeswehr's drug reservoirs.
Second season, seventh episode (episodes 15-16) from 1979
The secret services of the FRG and the USA find the situation in southern Europe more and more worrying - the CIA is forging plans for national-fascist overturns in Greece, Turkey and Italy. The result is an organization, the "World Secret Apparatus of Revolutionary Action" under the direction of the northern Italian industrialist Don Salvatore. The secret apparatus is already at risk: one of his lawyers, Lombardi, who works in Rome, has made a deal with the public prosecutor: he unpacks against impunity through fascist networks and their contacts with the US embassy. CIA agent Wilson and the Italian chief of intelligence, General Angelo, have to clear things up.
The secret apparatus tries to intimidate Lombardi; when that doesn't work, they kill him. In his office they meet Dr. Clemens, who was supposed to negotiate illegal arms deals between the CIA, the armed forces and the secret apparatus and whose actual partner would be Lombardi. Clemens is kidnapped and held by the Roman head of the secret apparatus, Moffo. The Scorpio siblings work together with Moffo as a killer. Hilda Scorpio later becomes the leader of the "New Order" (part of the organization of the secret apparatus) in Milan, Rodolfo Scorpio receives Marxist-Maoist training at a Bundeswehr training place and is thus smuggled into an ultra-left Italian organization. This is said to unsettle the situation with attacks to such an extent that there should be a military coup and a fascist takeover of power in Italy, as the people would demand “settlement with the left”. The most spectacular coup they have landed for the time being is the kidnapping of MP Batti.
Meanwhile, Clemens' wife and Alexander are able to track down the lawyer and free him themselves. Clemens recognizes the international context and therefore sends Alexander to Madrid to meet Winnie Winkelmann, who is collecting information about the conspirators in Spain. You will find the former SS General von Krakenburg, who is now in contact with the secret apparatus on behalf of Wieseneck. The heads of the apparatus meet in a hotel in Corsica, where they decide on further measures. They are planning an bomb attack on Milan Central Station. Clemens and Winkelmann know about the meeting and are also there, but they cannot find out what was decided there. But you get to know the family of the engineer Laffitte, who are on vacation on the island. Laffitte receives an offer from his Algeria comrade Chabert (now Adjutant of Don Salvatore) to join the secret apparatus, but refuses. When his wife and daughter die in the attack in Milan, Laffitte forges plans for revenge.
He joins the machine, but quickly realizes that it was not the leftists, but the machine itself, who were to blame for the attack at the train station. He is now looking for revenge against the organization. Through Chabert he arrives at its center on the "Island of Death", an old Huguenot fortress. Here he tries to find out as much as possible about the secret apparatus and in this way he can finally save Winnie Winkelmann from an attack - she also came across the island during her research.
Chabert now learns that Laffitte's family may have died in Milan. Laffitte has to - in order not to be exposed - kill his former war comrade. But since Laffitte found out that Chabert was responsible for the attack, it is not difficult for him, he sees it as a station in his revenge. But he has to flee. He goes to Italy with Winnie Winkelmann, where he can help the GDR scouts with his knowledge. Through him they can fully expose the plot: the illegal arms deals financed by drug trafficking, the infiltration of the ultra-left Maoist organizations, and that Batti is still hidden in Milan. However, they cannot find him, they are too late - but Laffitte recognizes the Milanese assassin in Moffo and shoots him. In this way, the Milan headquarters of the secret apparatus can be rendered harmless.
Rodolfo Scorpio has received the order to bring Batti on board a ship and to eliminate him there. But since Laffitte is now passing on the incriminating material from the Milan headquarters of the "New Order" to the public prosecutor, the secret apparatus has to sacrifice Scorpio. General Angelo of all people is now supposed to play the savior Battis. The act succeeds, the general has come out of the affair safe for the time being.
The BND and the secret apparatus, meanwhile, smuggle further confidants into the ultra-left organizations , mainly those who served as SS men in Italy during the war (i.e. who know the country and its people). “Crossheads” who could cause difficulties are brutally murdered and “left behind” during attacks in order to continue to blame the left for the terrorist acts. The scouts cannot celebrate a victory - when Laffitte also hears that General Angelo has been released on bail and the whole organization can be rebuilt, he makes the decision to return to the island of death ...
Successor fire dragon
The two-part GDR television film Feuerdrachen (1981) was originally planned as a sequel to the series. Both the script and the commercial used the title The Invisible Visor . Fire dragons should seamlessly tie in with the plot of part 16 of the series and thus show the same characters.
In the early 1980s, however, the Invisible Visor project was dropped and the Fire Dragon implemented as an independent work. The plot was rewritten and placed on a separate platform, and the actors and actors were completely replaced with a few exceptions.
production
The series was produced on behalf of GDR television by the DEFA studio for feature films. Unlike usual, not all parts of a season were produced in one piece for the series. Rather, only the individual episodes were produced together. A connection between the episodes is established through a series of characters that appear again and again in the course of the series.
However, there are also a number of inconsistencies. The introductory text to Part 4 says: "Only one person in Germany knows Achim Detjen's secret: the Frankfurt photographer Winnie Winkelmann." At the beginning of the 6th part it says in the same place: "Only two people in the FRG know Achim Detjen's secret: the former lieutenant of the Wendland water police and the Frankfurt photographer Winnie Winkelmann." Although the figure of the later Corvette Captain Wendland is introduced in the 3rd part, it is not mentioned at the beginning of the 4th part.
In addition, some actors have portrayed different characters over the course of the series. The most striking here are Siegfried Loyda , who portrays Major Braunbach in the 1st episode (parts 1 to 3) and from the 4th episode acts as Born's assistant Herzog, and Marion van de Kamp , who in the second episode (4th and 3rd episode) acts as Born's assistant, Herzog 5th episode) as Frau Professor Godiva and later, from the 9th episode, plays the scout Felicitas Eichhofer.
Also in different - albeit supporting roles - appear: Willi Schrade as Kutzner (1st episode) or employee of Western Electronic (3rd episode) and Gerd Staiger as a carpenter (1st episode) or ODESSA member (4th episode) ).
criticism
With a mixture of an adventure and spy series and with the help of cinematic sympathizers like Armin Mueller-Stahl, the client of the "Invisible Visor", the GDR Ministry for State Security , hoped to improve its reputation among the East German population. The political objective was clear from the start: Socialism was presented as the superior system. In contrast, West Germany was presented as a corrupt country, only interested in material things and permeated by old Nazis.
Werner Bredebusch, who was political and committed in the sense of the SED regime, was portrayed as an agent who moves safely on both the Bonn and the international stage. But he can also be shirt-sleeved and prefers to be in the company of simple people. He has a friendly working relationship with his MfS colleague Winnie Winkelmann.
The GDR hardly appears in the series, only in the form of the MfS superiors who worry about Bredebusch alias Detjen and also think of roses for his lonely mother in the GDR. Occasional West Germans and foreigners are ready to help Detjens, the good cause of the client. It is mostly women who have also succumbed to his charm. On the basis of the recurring CIA man Wilson, it should be shown that in the Federal Republic, in reality, the USA would have had the say.
In SPIEGEL, Heike Knaack refers to an "incongruence of theme, mask and equipment". In the scenes from the immediate post-war period, people appear in the fashion of the time the series was created.
Episode overview
First season
| episode | episode | title | First shipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. | The roman way | December 23, 1973 |
| 2. | The nest in the jungle | December 25, 1973 | |
| 3. | The moated castle | December 26, 1973 | |
| 2 | 4th | A strange attack | 02/02/1975 |
| 5. | The secret of the masks | 02/04/1975 | |
| 3 | 6th | Mystery of the fjord | December 26, 1975 |
| 7th | Depot in the Skagerrak | December 26, 1975 | |
| 4th | 8th. | Murderers don't take a break | December 25, 1976 |
| 9. | The peacock has seven eyes | December 25, 1976 |
Second season
| episode | episode | title | First shipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 10. | The Afrikaanse Broederbond I | December 16, 1977 |
| 11. | The Afrikaanse Broederbond II | December 17, 1977 | |
| 12. | The Afrikaanse Broederbond III | December 18, 1977 | |
| 6th | 13. | King Kong flu I | December 15, 1978 |
| 14th | King Kong flu II | December 17, 1978 | |
| 7th | 15th | Isle of Death I | December 14, 1979 |
| 16. | Isle of Death II | December 16, 1979 |
Film music
Walter Kubiczeck's memorable film music was so successful that it was released in the GDR on two LPs ( “Das invichtbare Visier” , 1979, “Heiße Spur”, 1984 ) and three singles on the AMIGA record label . The versions used on the records differ from the earlier versions used in the film, among other things, in the increased use of wind instruments and a background choir. Most of the titles published on the two LPs were recorded by the Walter Kubiczeck Orchestra. The Lothar Stuckart orchestra plays some pieces , including the new versions of "Tentakel" and "Maskentanz". Furthermore, some well-known singers can be heard on several pieces with Vocalisen, for example Gerda Gabriel and Gerti Möller.
The titles are (excerpt):
- Mask dance
- tentacle
- savannah
- Shepherd's song
- action
- King Kong
- Fire 21
- Compass rose
- fire and flame
- Eldorado
- Kalahari
- Rotidor
- Abbisinia
Walter Kubiczeck's music for The Invisible Visor and other films and television series, such as Fahndung , Death of a Millionaire , The Light of the Black Candle , Fire Dragons and Family Ties , has so far been re-released on three CDs. In 1995, the first coupling appeared on the BARBArossa label under the title “Heiße Spur - Original-Filmmusik aus DEFA- und TVfilms” (EAN: 4019774131021). Here some tracks were given different titles than on the original AMIGA records; so the “Shepherd's Song” became “Nomadenzug”, “Windrose” became “Krinos”, “Aktion” became “Tiger's Eye”, “Savanne” became “Eismeer” and “What I want” became “Johanne”. In 2001, BMG / AMIGA published the third part of the series "AMIGA A GO-GO", the CD "German-Democratic Soundtracks" (EAN: 743217887322) with a cross-section of the two AMIGA LPs "Das invichtbare Visier" and "Heiße Spur" as well as a new remix of the title "Maskentanz", produced by Berlin DJ Maxwell Implosion . Since several pieces of the original AMIGA records by Walter Kubiczeck are missing on these two CDs, the CD "German Democratic Soundtracks" was newly linked in 2007 on the occasion of AMIGA's 60th birthday and initially in a 3-way version at SONY / BMG / AMIGA CD box with the first two parts of the “AMIGA A GO-GO” series and later also published individually. This new coupling (EAN: 886970707220) contains only 13 titles from the first edition; the remaining nine tracks are mostly CD releases, such as the single version of "Tentakel", "Feuer 21", "Feuer und Flamme", "Familienbande" or the version of "Tschüss II" sung by the Jürgen Erbe Choir.
Another song from the series The invisible visor can be found on the CD "Die Hits aus den Bruderländer Volume 1 - The greatest hits" (EAN: 886971656626) released by SONY / BMG / AMIGA in 2007. "Be a man" is a title written by Walter Kubiczeck (composition) and his wife at the time Karin Kersten (text) and interpreted by the Czech singer and actress Milena Zahrynowská (1941–1986), which originally appeared in 1973 on an AMIGA single . Milena also appeared in the TV series with this song.
The theme song was integrated into the soundtrack for the feature film Scouts of Peace , which premiered in 2017 . The theme music of the invisible visor was also used in an episode of the series "SoKo Leipzig", which deals with former GDR espionage, as background music for a SoKo search operation.
literature
- Novels (Bonhoff / Schauer), published by the military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic :
- The invisible visor - password "forget-me-not"
- The secret of the masks
- Depot in the Skagerrak
- The peacock has seven eyes
- The “DuV-Fanclub.de” has published the book for the series “… the invisible visor on the trail…” as an anthology at irregular intervals since 2004 (currently 4th volume published 12/2013).
- Stefan Wogawa: The Invisible Visor - The Story of a Cult Series . 1st edition. Greifenverlag , Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86939-412-1 .
Radio
- Thomas Gaevert : James Bond made in GDR? - Socialist television heroes on the invisible front of peace ; Production: Südwestrundfunk 2006; First broadcast: October 17, 2006 SWR2; Republication as additional material / background documentation as part of the DVD box Street Sweeper 12, The Invisible Visor, episode 01-08 ; Studio Hamburg 2009
DVDs
The first nine episodes of the series were released on DVD in September 2009; a second DVD box with episodes 10 to 16 was released in May 2010.
See also
- Every kilometer ( На всеки километър / Na vseki kilometăr , Bulgaria 1969, with Stefan Danailow in the role of Major Deyanov)
- The criminal cases of Major Zeman ( 30 případů majora Zemana , ČSSR 1975–1977, director: Jiří Sequens , with Vladimír Brabec as Major Zeman)
- Rendezvous with unknown DFF 1969, director: János Veiczi , scripts: Harry Thürk , with Alfred Müller as major of the MfS Wendt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Wogawa: The invisible visor - The story of a cult series . 1st edition. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86939-412-1 , p. 132 .
- ↑ Stefan Wogawa: The invisible visor - The story of a cult series . 1st edition. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86939-412-1 , p. 1 .
- ↑ Stefan Wogawa. Stasi-Bond with walrus schnauzer: Debate, March 2, 2012, 10:58. ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Heike Knaack: Stasi-Bond with walrus schnauzer . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE, accessed on February 26, 2012 .; It should be noted that the criticism of the actors with black make-up is unjustified, as it is not negligence, but intentional. The bartender explains the following to the French journalist in the second film: "Senorita Morelo, your father is one of the richest mine owners in the north. By the way, he's as white as you."