THE LAST EXECUTION

Director:
Franziska Stünkel

East Berlin, 1981. The ambitious scientist Franz Walter is recruited by the Secret Police - the feared Stasi - and sent on a foreign assignment to West Germany. Franz soon gets into trouble because of his increasingly critical attitude towards the system and is accused of espionage. A film based on the true story of the last execution in the former East Germany.

 

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Director:
Franziska Stünkel
Cast:
Lars Eidinger, Devid Striesow, Luise Heyer, Paula Kalenberg, Peter Benedict, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Andreas Schröders, Moritz Jahn, Kai Wiesinger, Peter Lohmeyer
Country:
Germania
Running time:
116 minute
Section:
TIFF Edition:
2022