Goods for Catalonia
- Eva -Maria Hagen: Marion heeled
- Hanna Rimkus: Sabine Falk
- Hartmut Reck: Second Lieutenant Schellenberg
- Heinz -Dieter Knaup: Lieutenant Hasselbach
- Ivan Malré: Bob Georgi
- Wilfried Ortmann: Hasso Teschendorf
- Gerlint Ahnert: Employees in Polland
- Gerd Biewer: Teniente Petro Lopez
- Ralph Boettner: Employee in currency exchange
- Jean Brahn: Nappo
- Carola Braunbock: Charlotte Gansauge
- Horst Buder: busboy
- Norbert Christian: Sigi
- Rudolf Christoph: ABV
- Dom de Beern: operations manager
- Fritz Diez: Captain Gerner
- Werner Dissel porter
- Margot Ebert: haircut
- Gerhard Free: cement Otto
- Erich Fritz: traffic cop
- Paul radio porter
- Albert Garbe: Bachmann
- Peter -Paul goest: ABV
- Herbert Green Tree: Mr. Rosli
- Gerd Michael Henneberg: CEO
- Hubert Hoelzke: Seller
- Waldemar Jacobi: Laubenpieper
- Walter Jupe: ID Erwin
- Manfred Krug: Young optics smugglers
- Marga Legal: housekeeper
- Gerhard Leh: People's Police Lieutenant
- Walter Lendrich: Neubert
- Werner Lierck: truck driver
- Wolf Lucas: truck driver
- Günter Margo: Spanish customs officers
- John Maus: Holzapfel
- Heinz Scholz: Ferdinand heeled
- Paul Streckfuß: Seller
- Marianne Wünscher: Employees in currency exchange
Goods for Catalonia is a German crime film DEFA by Richard Groschopp from the year 1959. It is based on true facts.
Action
In a gazebo a dead man is found. On the train to West Berlin police arrested an elderly lady in whose pocket binoculars is found. It turns out that the dead man was part of a smuggling ring that was active in the field of optics shift. The old woman again brought regularly optical devices from the GDR to her son in the " Kant -Klause " to West Berlin, which is obviously a central hub of the contraband. Second Lieutenant Schellenberg, just been joined only at the Department of Optics shift, and Lieutenant Hasselbach deal with the case. The beautiful saleswoman Sabine Falk, which can expose and arrest a slide in their optics HO- shop will soon be ensnared by two policemen, but decides at the end of Schellenberg.
The young Marion stiletto has apparently an admirer: During a trip to West Berlin she met the gallant Bob Georgi know, the soon courting her and eventually even engaged to her. What Marion does not realize is that when Bob is " The fat Bob" head of the gang of smugglers for optical devices. Higher is only his partner Hasso Tesch village, called " The Spaniard ". Bob, who feels cheated by Hasso wants to start his own organization and use Marion's apartment as a temporary storage for branched contraband.
Together with Marion and Hasso he goes to " engagement journey" in the Federal Republic of Germany, and France to Spain, where many optical devices are supplied to the end user. As Hasso noticed back in West Berlin that he wants to deceive Bob, he can beat him up and gets down with Marion the smuggled goods from. As yet Bob wants to get his goods at Marion and it is already gone, Bob shows his true colors. In the meantime, the police Bob and Hasso is to track down and arrest Bob, as he wants to leave Marion's apartment. Hasso turn is made at the border to West Berlin and overwhelmed by Schellenberg on the run to the Brandenburg Gate.
Production
Goods to Catalonia was created at the suggestion of the Ministry of Interior of the GDR. The film deals with real processes in which the figure of the Hasso Hasso Tesch village on Schützendorf is ajar, who worked as a smuggler optics. In contrast to the film itself Schützendorf was able to escape arrest and flee to Spain, where he died in 2003.
Goods for Catalonia was turned with in East Berlin under the working title The case Schützendorf. The film experienced on March 6, 1959 Leipzig Capitol its premiere and came on 13 March 1959 in the GDR cinemas.
Criticism
Karl- Eduard von Schnitzler praised goods for Catalonia in the film mirror as "the best [n ] thriller, which our DEFA has been turned. " This film possesses a convincing "fidelity in detail [ and ] a remarkable actor and dialogue management ."
The filmdienst called goods for Catalonia a " well-built cases for authentic [n ] thriller with appealing acting performance. "
Award
Director Richard Groschopp was recognized for goods for Catalonia in 1959 with the Art Prize of the GDR.