Pygmalion XII

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Movie
Original title Pygmalion XII
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1971
Rod
Director Ingrid Sander
script Ingrid Sander , based on a scenario by Harry Thürk
production DEFA
music Wolfgang Pietsch
camera Erwin Anders
cut Ruth Ebel
occupation

Pygmalion XII is the time of the Cold War, playing agent - propaganda film of the DEFA anti-American and anti-West German tendency.

action

The American Jack Treets works as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) branch in Frankfurt am Main . Treets betrays the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) - he has succeeded in persuading a BND employee to secretly pass on material that the BND considers internal and strictly confidential. In addition, Treets intercepts Mr. Grauberger Post to the BND in Munich Pullach for himself with the help of a legal assistant who works for him . Through such an intercepted broadcast, he learns that he and his BND contact were photographed during a BND material handover, which this observer wants to tell the BND. Treets exchanged the material and had the envelope closed again so that it should not be noticed that it was opened.

Treets is in a relationship with the German mannequin Erika Bongert. It allows her a luxurious life, but otherwise only uses her. For unspecified reasons, he hires a CIA agent to murder his lover in a fictitious car accident, which fails because she lends the car to her manager Frey, who has a fatal accident. Treets is amazed that his lover is still alive. She suspects nothing and confronts him with regard to the common future. She wants security and marriage and not always being put off.

The mechanic who examined the car noticed the manipulation and so did the West German police. However, on instructions from above, the West German police informed the surprised mechanic to scrap the car and not investigate the matter any further. Treets devises another plan to murder his lover.

The citizen of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Irene Malzer works in Leipzig in an office for GDR foreign trade. Four years ago the CIA tried to recruit her as an agent, whereupon she turned to the Ministry of State Security (MfS). She accepted the MfS suggestion that the CIA would appear to recruit her as an agent and actually work as a double agent for the MfS. At the CIA she is listed as Pygmalion XII and supplies "game material" compiled by the MfS.

Treets is warned by his CIA superior Brooke that the CIA is not officially spying on any information from the BND and that such a high-level discovery could lead to irritation, and that if his contact is exposed, Treets would not survive either.

In his new plan to murder his lover, Treets again makes use of his possibilities as an agent. He lets it be known that the Pygmalion XII he is in charge of is about to be exposed and must be ejected. For this discharge he uses the West Schleuser Brandner. He describes the matter to his lover in such a way that they spend time together in Berlin , he flies in a military plane and she is brought across the border to the GDR with a courier. He would briefly drop her on a motorway parking lot, do something, and take her back with him. In Treets' new plan, the agent Pygmalion XII with a blonde wig should then be able to travel back to Germany as his lover Erika Bongert.

Treets see his surprised lover in the freeway parking lot after she was dropped off and murdered her. However, in the meantime, the double agent Pygmalion XII has informed her real client, the MfS. Major Bergmeister directs the defense measures. When Pygmalion XII was contacted regarding the removal, she was shadowed by Lieutenant Uhlmann. In the course of the further observation, the MfS succeeds in arresting the smuggler Brandner and the CIA agent Treets. Lieutenant Wegener finds Erika Bongert's body in the parking lot.

production

The film was shot with the assistance of the MfS press office in the DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Outdoor recordings were made in u. a. in Frankfurt am Main and in Leipzig. The actors Werner Wieland as Grauberger, one of Towers' informants, Hans-Joachim Preil as Mr. Frey, the manager of the mannequins, Margitta Lüder-Preil as the mannequin, Maria Rouvel as Maja, Gertraut Last as a costume designer, Trude Brentina as a fashion show had smaller supporting roles -Employee, Gerhard Lau as a car mechanic, Carmen-Maja Antoni , as housekeeper for Treets and Günter Schubert as a radio technician . Rudolf Kobosil took over the production management. Paul Lasinski was the unit manager. Anita Francke was the assistant director, Klaus Mühlstein and Max Teschner were the camera assistants. Günter Dallorso and Gerhard Ribbeck were responsible for the sound. Inge Kistner created the costumes, Christel Kieseler and Peter Vohs provided the mask, and Klaus Winter set the stage. Peter Gericke was responsible for the buildings.

literature

  • Barbara Brylska from Poland in the new television film “Pygmalion XII” , in: Neue Berliner Illustrierte, 1/1971.

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