69
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To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish men from an SS training camp are sent on a special mission to the town of Gleiwitz, to fake a Polish raid on Germany. The ‘provoked’ Germans will thus launch a ‘counterattack’ on Poland.
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Audiences 69GoodWatch 69
IMDb6.9
Running time
1 h 4 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 dramas, −45 min on the typical 109
typical 10964Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
1961
August 23, 1961
65 years ago
Genres
DramaHistoryThrillerLanguage
German
Original language
Made in
XG
9 of 9
Hannjo HasseAlfred Naujocks
Herwart GrosseGestapochef Müller
Hilmar ThateKZ-Häftling
Christoph BeyerttVolksdeutscher Franz Sitte- WKWolfgang KalweitVolksdeutscher Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit
- GLGeorg LeopoldVolksdeutscher Franz Wyczorek
Heinz BehrensOffizier
Kurt MühlhardtMajor der Abwehr
Werner DisselVolksschullehrer
Directing · 1
- Gerhard Klein Director, Costume Design
Writing · 2
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase Writer
- Günther Rücker Writer
Camera · 1
- Jan Čuřík Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Evelyn Carow Editor
Sound · 1
- Kurt Schwaen Music
Art · 1
- Gerhard Helwig Production Design
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