Der Stich des Skorpion

Release Date: 2004-09-26

Overview: Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in together, who becomes pregnant by him and whom he soon marries. One day, an old friend, Dieter Michaelis, a fellow prisoner from Bautzen, comes to the reception center and asks Stein to work as an escape helper for his brother-in-law living in the GDR.

Rating: 7.1 / 10

Cast

Jörg Schüttauf

as Wolfgang Stein

Martina Gedeck

as Anne Stein

Matthias Brandt

as Volker Erler

Matthias Brenner

as Dieter Michaelis

Ulrike Krumbiegel

as Maria Michaelis