At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
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Eva-Maria Hagen
Marion Stöckel
Wilfried Ortmann
Hasso Teschendorf
Carola Braunbock
Charlotte Gansauge
Fritz Diez
Captain Gerner
Herwart Grosse
Captain Polland
Hartmut Reck
Sub-lieutenant Schellenberg
Hanna Rimkus
Sabine Falk
Ivan Malré
Bob Georgi
Loni Michelis
Johanna Stöckel
Heinz Scholz
Ferdinand Stöckel
Peter Kiwitt
Eskamillo Lohmann
Gerd Biewer
Teniente Petro Lopez
Heinz-Dieter Knaup
Leutnant Hasselbach
Herbert Grünbaum
Herr Rösli
Charlotte Krulle
Frau Neubert
