Front without mercy
Television series | |
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Original title | Front without mercy |
Country of production | GDR |
original language | German |
year | 1984 |
Production company |
DEFA for television in the GDR |
length | 54-62 minutes |
Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
Director | Rudi Kurz |
idea | Rudi Kurz |
script | Rudi Kurz |
production | Siegfried Kabitzke |
music | Bernd Wefelmeyer |
camera | Günter Heimann |
First broadcast | January 6, 1984 on GDR 1 |
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Front ohne Gnade is a 13-part history series of television in the GDR . The series, produced by DEFA from 1981 to 1983 , was conceived as the successor to the Archive of Death series. Front without Mercy describes in several episodes the struggle of German resistance fighters from 1934 to the end of the Second World War. The series first aired from January 6 to March 30, 1984.
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At the center of the plot is the communist resistance fighter Hermann Anders. The daredevil Heiner tied up with the maid Anni. She works in the house of Obersturmbannführer Maas and is now spying for Heiner and his friends Hermann and Lydia. But Maas' butler Cyrus finds Anni. Meanwhile, Hermann kidnaps the captain of the Condor Legion , Baron Gottfried von Lindeck, together with Pablo Calvo during the civil war in Spain .
End of the series in the epilogue: After a short imprisonment, Maas and Quantity work for the CIA and BND after the war .
Episode list
number | Episode title | First broadcast |
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1 | In the last minute | January 6, 1984 |
2 | Death in the villa | January 13, 1984 |
3 | Find at night | 20th January 1984 |
4th | P3X is forever silent | January 27, 1984 |
5 | The wrong baron | 3rd February 1984 |
6th | Decision at midnight | February 10, 1984 |
7th | Pianos for Malaga | 17th February 1984 |
8th | Fireball company | February 24, 1984 |
9 | Deadly trap | March 2, 1984 |
10 | Pablo is in danger | March 9, 1984 |
11 | In the rocks of the Caucasus | March 16, 1984 |
12 | Death plan for the shaft | March 23, 1984 |
13 | Shackles for the murderers | March 30, 1984 |
supporting cast
- Bernd Braun : Jochen Hellmann
- Hans-Joachim Entrich : Forester
- Jaecki Schwarz : Forensic Technician
- Ursula Christowa-Staack : Plump customer
- Hans-Joachim Hegewald : Standartenführer von Wittke
- Heinz Schröder : Prof. Mantey
- Gisela Leipert : Surgical nurse
- Marijam Agischewa : Flores
- Jürgen Reuter : Sergeant Patzke
- Uwe Zerbe : Chief of Staff Int. Brigades
- Frank Schenk : Hartnich
- Angel Stojanow : Capitano Manzoli
- Klaus Mertens : SS-Oberführer
- Thomas Gumpert : Special Leader Dr. Gäbler
- Helmut Schreiber : Major in the compartment
- Lubomír Kostelka : Sleeping stage captain
- Jörg Knochée : Young lieutenant
- Eckhard Bilz : Senior stage captain
- Wolfram Handel : Standartenführer Eisleben
- Hans-Peter Reinecke : warehouse manager
- Petr Skarke : Boris
- Peter Friedrichson : Young truck driver
- Fred Delmare : Senior Corporal
- Wilfried Pucher : Medical officer
- Joachim Schönitz : Lieutenant of the trench patrol
- Heidemarie Wenzel : Dr. will
- Kaspar Eichel : Krauthahn
- Werner Ehrlicher : Dr. hunger
- Willi Neuenhahn : man with hammer drill
- Klaus Gehrke : bodyguard
- Gert Gütschow : Dr. Helferich
- Helmut Schellhardt : Soon
- Klaus-Dieter Klebsch : Erxleben
- Werner Pfeifer : Man in uniform
- Werner Senftleben : local farmers guide
- Leon Niemczyk : Soviet major
- Horst Giese : SA leader
- Dieter Memel : SA leader
- Jörg Panknin : Pretrial detainee
- Armin Gröpler : Forensic Technician
- Horst Papke : Sergeant
- Gerd Michael Henneberg : physicist
- Werner Kanitz : Soviet. Partisan officer
- Pedro Hebenstreit : Caucasians on a rope
- Hartmut Beer : English post
- Peter Thomsen : English sentry
- Svetlana Skorochodowa : Sonja
- Stanislaw Brankatschk : Aljoscha
- Vladimir Matlak : Volodya
Web links
- Front without mercy in the Internet Movie Database (English)