The BND File: The Secret Service and Its First Arms Dealer
The BND File: The Secret Service and Its First Arms Dealer
2019, German. Directed by Rainer Kahrs.
In occupied post-war Germany, the ex-paratrooper and former SS man Gerhard Mertins rises to become a powerful arms dealer. He has many contacts in the Middle East and with old Nazi greats, a man who therefore becomes interesting for secret services. He starts right after the Second World War as a simple taxi entrepreneur in Bremerhaven, but soon he does best business with the German secret service BND and also the American CIA. Until today many files about Mertins are secret. Because against German laws, against international law, Mertins moved weapons into war zones with the backing and sometimes on behalf of the German secret service BND. For almost two years, the team around author Rainer Kahrs did research for the film. For the first time, the BND granted a camera team access to files on Gerhard Mertins, the first BND arms dealer. For the first time, Mertins' wife and daughter also speak in front of the camera.
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- 0h 45m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Rainer KahrsDirector
- Niels StolbergSelf
- Erich Schmidt-EenboomSelf
- Viktor YushchenkoSelf
- Mykola MalomuzhSelf
- David E.A. JohnsonSelf, executive director, Center for Advanced Defense Studies
- Frank PassadeSelf, executive director, Center for Advanced Defense Studies
- Luuk van de VondervoortSelf, European Institute for Peace
- André HahnSelf
- Volodimir KalininSelf, security administrator, Port of Oktyabrsk, Ukraine
- Bruno KahlSelf, president of German Federal Intelligence Service
Details
- Released
- 11 March 2019
- Original title
- Die Akte BND: Der Geheimdienst und sein erster Waffenhändler
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Rainer Kahrs
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The BND File: The Secret Service and Its First Arms Dealer (2019) was directed by Rainer Kahrs and stars Niels Stolberg, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Viktor Yushchenko.