The Red Chapel (1972)

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The Red Chapel
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Plot
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.

TV Show Details

Air Date:April 9th, 1972

Last Air Date:May 22nd, 1972

Network:Das Erste
Status:Ended
Original Language:German
Production Companies:WDR, Bavaria Film, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, RAI
TV Show Tags:
world war ii