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8.9/10   9 votes
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Writer:
Gerald Seymour (writer)
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Release Date:
3 January 1988 (UK) more
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Excellent TV movie highlighting spy movements across inner German Border more (2 total)

Cast

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Kevin McNally ... Johnny Donoghue
Bernard Hepton ... Henry Carter

James Faulkner ... Charles Mawby
Hans Caninenberg ... Professor Guttman
Brigitte Karner ... Erica Guttman
Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff ... Willi Guttman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Katharina Abt ... Jutte Harnburg (as Katharina Abt-Meyer)
Ann Aris ... Mawby's Assistant
Uwe Büschken ... Junior BND Official
Edward Clayton ... Charlie Davies
Paul Gabriel ... 1st Soldier
Mark Jordan ... 2nd Soldier
Hans Walter Klein ... Senior BND Official
Marion Kracht ... Renate
Robert Lang ... Deputy Under Secretary
Michael Lees ... Consul
Friedhelm Lehmann ... East German Officer
Rudolf W. Marnitz ... Senior Intelligence Officer (as Rolf Marnitz)
Allan McClelland ... Judge
Paul McLain ... 3rd Soldier
William Merrow ... Pastor
Norman Mills ... Smithson
Clifford Milner ... Para Sergeant
Henry Olmeier ... East German Sergeant
Seamus O'Neill ... Knowles
Bert Parnaby ... Adam Percy
Hans Schödel ... Heini Schalke
Claus-Peter Seifert ... Ulf Becker
Dieter Steinbrink ... Dr. Gunter Sptizer
Bruno Tendera ... Spitzer's Deputy
Robert Whelan ... Fenton
Hans Zander ... Lentzer
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UK:60 min (3 episodes)
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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful.
Excellent TV movie highlighting spy movements across inner German Border, 8 October 2002
10/10
Author: mikeutopia from Dartford, Kent, England

This was a marvellous 3 part TV movie (3 hours total) about an attempt to bring a Russian missile manufacturer to defect to the west. The plan goes horribly wrong and the spy sent to persuade him over has to take the old man and his daughter across country and through the east German border fence. I've never seen this on video or DVD and sadly it was only aired once back in the mid eighties. Would be worth checking out or a TV re-run if only to highlight what a dangerous thing it was to try and escape from east to west.

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