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.
Eva-Maria Hagen
Wilfried Ortmann
Carola Braunbock
Fritz Diez
Herwart Grosse
Hartmut Reck
Hanna Rimkus
Ivan Malré
Loni Michelis
Heinz Scholz
Peter Kiwitt
Gerd Biewer
Heinz-Dieter Knaup
Herbert Grünbaum
Charlotte Krulle
Walter Lendrich
Albert Garbe
Gerhard Frei
Walter Jupé
Norbert Christian
Hans Robert Wille
Marianne Wünscher
Marga Legal
Manfred Krug
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Gerlind Ahnert
Jean Brahn
Anneliese Reppel
Ralph Boettner
Horst Buder
Rudolf Christoph
Dom de Beern
Werner Dissel
Margot Ebert
Erich Fritze
Paul Funk
Peter Paul Goes
Hubert Hoelzke
Waldemar Jacobi
Joachim Konrad
Werner Lierck
Günter Margo
Johannes Maus
Herbert Mewes-Conti
Rudolf Napp
Hanna Rieger
Hildegard Röder
Hans-Dieter Schlegel
Paul Streckfuß
Peter Sturm
Friedrich Teitge
Horst Torka
Theresia Wider