The Last Execution

The story

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...

Cast

L Lars EidingerDr. Franz Walter D Devid StriesowDirk Hartmann L Luise HeyerCorina Walter P Paula KalenbergKlara P Peter BenedictSchreiber V Victoria TrauttmansdorffProfessor Link A Andreas SchrödersHagedorn M Moritz JahnBodo Renner K Kai WiesingerWagner P Peter LohmeyerPanther C Christian RedlHans Walter H Hedi KriegeskotteMargrit Walter

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N Neithardt RiedelCorina's Father M Monika HärtlCorina's Mother H Hendrik HeutmannBernd F Florian AndererSchulte I Inka LöwendorfAnja Hartmann A Ada Philine StappenbeckLuisa Langfeld L Leon HogeHorst Langfeld D Daniel DrewesJudge Nolte T Thomas SchendelMilitary Prosecutor Kühn H Hannes HellmannJudge Bergmann D Dirk BöhlingMüller G Georg MitterstielerMan in Airplane H Hendrik MassuteHVA-Employee T Thomas HintzePhysician