
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.
First Aired: 4/9/1972
Languages: German
Created by: Franz Peter Wirth
Type: Miniseries
Companies: WDR, Bavaria Film, ORTF, RAI
Countries: France, Germany, Italy

Werner Kreindl
Leopold Trepper

Georges Claisse
Victor

Rada Rassimov
Margarete Barcza

Franco Graziosi
Leon Großvogel

Jacques Rispal
Hillel Katz

Harry R. Sokal
Isisdor Springer

Candice Patou
Georgie de Winter

Jean Franval
General Iwan Alexejewitsch Susloparow

Peter Fricke
Harro Schulze-Boysen
Manfred Spies
Makarow
Ruth Kähler
Sophia Poznanska
Edeltraut Elsner
Libertas Schulze-Boysen
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