Coded Message for the Boss
1979, German. Directed by Helmut Dziuba.
Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Helmut DziubaDirector
- Peter ZimmermannWolf Brandin
- Karin DüwelRenate Brandin
- Gudrun RitterTante Caroline
- Achim PetryDirektor
- Werner PfeiferZweiter Totengräber
- Lothar SchellhornKittelmann
- Thea Schmidt-KeuneLehmannsche
- Dietrich KörnerWerner
- Piotr GarlickiDr.Baum
- Zdzisław KozieńCIA Chef
- Christoph EngelWagner
- Alfred MüllerGeneral
Details
- Released
- 29 November 1979
- Original title
- Chiffriert an Chef – Ausfall Nr. 5
- Country
- East Germany
- Written by
- Günter Karau, Helmut Dziuba, Gisela Karau
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Coded Message for the Boss runs 96 minutes (1h 36m).
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Coded Message for the Boss isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free online. (Checked 31 October 2026.)
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Who directed Coded Message for the Boss?
Coded Message for the Boss (1979) was directed by Helmut Dziuba and stars Peter Zimmermann, Karin Düwel, Gudrun Ritter.