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7.5/10   81 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Wolfgang Kohlhaase (screenplay)
Günther Rücker (screenplay)
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Release Date:
22 April 1961 (East Germany) more
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Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Hannjo Hasse ... SS-Hauptsturmführer Alfred Helmut Naujocks, alias Birke
Herwart Grosse ... Gestapochef Müller
Hilmar Thate ... KZ-Häftling
Georg Leopold ... Volksdeutscher Franz Wyczorek
Wolfgang Kalweit ... Volksdeutscher Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit
Rolf Ripperger ... Volksdeutscher Bieratzki
Christoph Bayertt ... Volksdeutscher Franz Sitte (as Christoph Beyertt)
Rudolf Woschiek ... Volksdeutscher Tutzauer (as Rudolf Woschick)
Manfred Günther ... Volksdeutscher Kühnel
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Ingrid Barkmann
Paul Bielicki ... Hilfspolizist
Wolfgang Borkenhagen
Hans Bosenius ... Studienrat
Rotraud Conrad
Heinz Dhein
Jochen Diestelmann ... Hauptmann
Werner Dissel ... Volksschullehrer
Fritz Ernst Fechner
Horst Friedrich
Walter E. Fuß
Horst Giesen ... Mann im Verstärkeramt
Horst Gill
Hubert Hoelzke
Karl-Helge Hofstadt
Harry Küster
Herbert Manz
Kurt Mühlhardt
Marianne Christina Schilling ... Dame mit Kind
Dieter Schindelhauer
Rudolf Seiß
Axel Triebel ... Herr von Saxonia
Theresia Wider
Achim Wolff ... Mechaniker
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Affair Gleiwitz
The Gleiwitz Case (USA) (DVD title)
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70 min
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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
How to make a big lie work., 26 September 2005
8/10
Author: d95112 from San Jose, CA.

This movie shows what it takes to trick a country into going to war. The mindset of those carrying out the operation is shown. This feels almost like a documentary. Lots of closeups that foreshadow the techniques of Sergio Leone. At times it moves quite fast and conveys the speed of the whole operation. At one time it moves at a pace to give the feeling of the waiting and tension that the operation itself produces. This movie would be perfect to see with DOWNFALL. The beginning and the end of the second world war,perfect bookends to all of the movies depicting World War II. This movie teaches lessons that are as full of meaning for today and the world situation.

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