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Ein brauchbarer Mann

10/18/1989

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1hr 39min

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Drama

STORY

Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in his career. One day, he receives a strange assignment from general manager Zeim. He is to track down the former chief designer Heiner Rudolf in order to take his inventions out of his pocket. Rudolf, ridiculed at the time for his forward-looking work, had taken all his documents with him when he left. Now they are needed to fulfill an important export order. In his search for Rudolf, Uli begins to realize that he, the boy, is being used. He finally finds Rudolf as a gravedigger on the island of Rügen. The encounter reinforces Uli's doubts about the moral integrity of his mission. He gets out and stays there, while Rudolf accepts an offer from the general manager.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Tobias Langhoff
  • Rolf Hoppe
  • Otto Mellies
  • Kirsten Block
  • Kurt Böwe

    Director

  • Hans-Werner Honert

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • DEFA

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • East Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Tobias Langhoff

Uli Merkel

Rolf Hoppe

Heiner Rudolf

Otto Mellies

Gerhard Zeim

Kirsten Block

Ilona Merkel

Kurt Böwe

Fischer Dröse

Anne Kasprik

Kerstin Rudolf

Karin Ugowski

Irina Weimann

Fred Delmare

Horst Rehberg

Thomas Rühmann