The Last Execution

The Last Execution (2021)

DramaThriller

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...

Director: Franziska Stünkel

Casts

	Lars Eidinger as Dr. Franz Walter
	Devid Striesow as Dirk Hartmann
	Luise Heyer as Corina Walter
	Paula Kalenberg as Klara
	Peter Benedict as Schreiber
	Victoria Trauttmansdorff as Professor Link
	Andreas Schröders as Hagedorn
	Moritz Jahn as Bodo Renner
	Kai Wiesinger as Wagner
	Peter Lohmeyer as Panther
	Christian Redl as Hans Walter
	Hedi Kriegeskotte as Margrit Walter
	Neithardt Riedel as Corina's Father
	Monika Härtl as Corina's Mother
	Hendrik Heutmann as Bernd
	Florian Anderer as Schulte
	Inka Löwendorf as Anja Hartmann
	Ada Philine Stappenbeck as Luisa Langfeld
	Leon Hoge as Horst Langfeld
	Daniel Drewes as Judge Nolte
	Thomas Schendel as Military Prosecutor Kühn
	Hannes Hellmann as Judge Bergmann
	Dirk Böhling as Müller
	Georg Mitterstieler as Man in Airplane
	Hendrik Massute as HVA-Employee
	Thomas Hintze as Physician

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