Rising to the Bait

Rising to the Bait (1992)

Comedy

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.

Director: Vadim Glowna

Casts

	Muriel Baumeister as Svetlana
	Ben Becker as Funke
	Elsa Grube-Deister as Ada Fenske
	Rolf Zacher as Zwirner
	Wolf-Dietrich Berg as Naujok
	Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp as Raschke
	Franziska Troegner as Trude
	Udo Walz as Rechtsanwalt
	Peter Mohrdieck as Major
	Horst Rehberg as Petersen
	Otmar Richter as Brehme
	Hans Jochen Röhrig as Pastor Seidel
	Ralph Sählbrandt as Benno

Crew