At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
Eva-Maria Hagen
as Marion Stöckel
Wilfried Ortmann
as Hasso Teschendorf
Carola Braunbock
as Charlotte Gansauge
Fritz Diez
as Captain Gerner
Herwart Grosse
as Captain Polland
Hartmut Reck
as Sub-lieutenant Schellenberg
Hanna Rimkus
as Sabine Falk
Ivan Malré
as Bob Georgi
Loni Michelis
as Johanna Stöckel
Heinz Scholz
as Ferdinand Stöckel
Peter Kiwitt
as Eskamillo Lohmann
Gerd Biewer
as Teniente Petro Lopez
