The Red Chapel

The Red Chapel

Limited Series 1972 · 7 eps · ★ 8.0 · War & Politics, Drama

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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.

Created by Franz Peter Wirth

Networks: Das Erste, ORTF Télévision

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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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