Code name Luna
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| Original title | Code name Luna |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
German English Russian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 240 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Ute Wieland |
| script |
Christian Jeltsch Monika Peetz |
| production | Susanne Freyer |
| music | Oli Biehler |
| camera | Peter Przybylski |
| cut | Dunja Campregher |
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Code name Luna is a two-part television film from 2012 with Anna Maria Mühe and Götz George in the leading role. It premiered on November 5 and November 8, 2012 on ZDF . The film is a spy drama that takes place at the beginning of the race to the moon (1961 to 1964) between the superpowers USA and the Soviet Union in divided Germany .
action
Rocket scientist Prof. Arthur Noswitz flees the Soviet Union with the help of the BND in April 1961 and has been supporting the West in the race to the moon in Augsburg at Bayrische Triebwerk Technik (BTT) . After his escape, his family in Rostock is targeted by the state security . His granddaughter Lotte Reinhardt dreams of a career as a cosmonaut in the GDR based on her role model, Yuri Gagarin , who at the same time is the first person in space . When the Berlin Wall was built, a world collapsed for the staunch communist Lotte, and she tried to help her brother to demonstrate for a just socialism . After a leaflet campaign, she was arrested by the Stasi and held under inhuman conditions. After her release, she visits her boyfriend, whom she suspects of betraying her. The friend dies when he falls down stairs. Despite the Stasi staff arriving immediately, she fled west across the Baltic Sea with the help of her brother Kurt . She is now considered a murderer in the GDR, and her parents are put under pressure. Since her father refuses to deny her, he is retired. In Germany she goes to her grandfather in Augsburg. He now lives with her aunt, who runs a hair salon . Stasi Major Moll, who secretly helped Lotte to escape , forces her to spy on her grandfather and his research results in the West. As leverage, he uses her brother, who was sentenced to four years in prison for helping people escape . He promises to help her brother for the successful cooperation. Lotte is trained in espionage with the help of an instructor. When Moll visited his wife's grave in Peenemünde, he discovered a grave with Lotte's name, who allegedly died after she was born in 1941. Moll believes she was a Western spy before, even her mother remains silent at his urging. Lotte now works for her grandfather. Between Lotte and her grandfather's colleague, Dr. Oskar Herrmann, who developed a love affair , got married in 1964. It is becoming more and more difficult for Lotte to hide her espionage activities from him, especially after BND agent Bruhns told researchers the existence of a KGB spy named Kosmos . When Lotte is caught as a spy by Oskar after a congress in a church in West Berlin , they agree to contact the BND. In order to prevent Lotte from being found out, one of her office colleagues is slipped under a spy camera by the KGB, and she is arrested by the BND. Instead of arresting Lotte, Bruhns negotiates with her to provide false information to the Stasi in order to track down Kosmos . Moll becomes suspicious and has Lotte monitored more closely. He also started an affair with Lotte's aunt in Augsburg, which could also be dangerous for himself.
After the BTT researchers have managed to develop a fuel that will allow a successful rocket launch , Lotte photographs the results. During the subsequent celebration on the occasion of the success, from which her grandfather departed at an early age, Lotte destroyed the material. A woman with red hair turns out to be a Soviet agent who wanted to meet with Kosmos , but is caught by Bruhns and tortured to testify . Lotte uses the cloak that she lost when she was arrested and goes after her grandfather. It turns out for her that her grandfather is cosmos and that he wants to ensure that a third world war does not break out with a balanced knowledge of both superpowers. She identifies herself as a Stasi spy and confesses to him that she has also accepted help from the BND. Noswitz obtained the release of his grandson Kurt by radio in Moscow in exchange for himself. The spy has meanwhile been talking on the basis of a serum, and Bruhns chases Lotte and her grandfather to the inner-German border , where the exchange is supposed to take place at a bridge.
There she persuades her grandfather to tell why there is a grave with her name. He tells her that in Peenemünde he had an affair with a Ukrainian warehouse worker who had a child and was then executed by the Nazis in 1942 . The child is Lotte herself, and he gave her to his daughter, who had just lost her own child. Suddenly Moll and the Russians arrive to exchange . During the exchange, Bruhns joins them on the western side and calls on Noswitz to surrender. When he didn't hear, Bruhns hit him in the leg. Lotte rushes over to him and Moll's subordinate shoots her on suspicion of treason, but hits the professor who has put himself in the line of fire. Noswitz dies in Lotte's arms, and Moll, long plagued by remorse, overflows to the West.
criticism
"Elaborately staged (television) drama as a portrait of a young woman against the backdrop of the Cold War."
background
- The code name Luna, given to Lotte Reinhard by the Stasi, is based on the operetta Frau Luna , which was Lotte's favorite operetta . Lotte uses the names of the protagonists from this operetta during an interrogation of the Stasi by Stasi employees Schoen in order to reveal them as the names of possible backers. But this is recognized by Major Moll. Major Moll then chooses the code name Luna for Lotte.
- Some scenes in the film are shown in the split-screen method popular in the 1960s and 1970s in order to show parallel events. The game scenes are compared with historical recordings.
- The song that Lotte and Professor Noswitz often hum in the film is the Russian folk song Poljuschko Pole .
- The exchange at the end is based on the real agent exchange campaigns at Glienicke Bridge in 1962, 1985 and 1986.
- From the 1930s to the 1960s there were actually rocket launches in Cuxhaven .
- The dialogue coach for the Russian language was Olga Volha Aliseichyk .
Publications
The film has been available on DVD since November 9, 2012 .
Web links
- Code name Luna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Code name Luna on zdf.de
- Timeline of the two-part on zdf.de