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The Red Chapel

1972 · 1 season · 1h per episode · War & Politics, Drama

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information from the economy and the Wehrmacht, about Atlantic Wall construction sites and railway lines, and send it to Moscow. The agents also get help from patriots who want to free their countries from the occupation by the Germans.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 7 episodes (April 9, 1972)

Cast

• Werner Kreindl as Leopold Trepper
• Georges Claisse as Victor
• Rada Rassimov as Margarete Barcza
• Franco Graziosi as Leon Großvogel
• Jacques Rispal as Hillel Katz
• Harry R. Sokal as Isisdor Springer
• Candice Patou as Georgie de Winter
• Jean Franval as General Iwan Alexejewitsch Susloparow
• Peter Fricke as Harro Schulze-Boysen
• Manfred Spies as Makarow
• Ruth Kähler as Sophia Poznanska
• Edeltraut Elsner as Libertas Schulze-Boysen

Details

Created by

Franz Peter Wirth

First aired

April 9, 1972

Episodes

7

Genres

War & Politics, Drama

Network

Das Erste and ORTF Télévision

Status

Ended

TMDB score

8.0 / 10 from 1 votes