Crew

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Written and directed by Rudolph Herzog

1st unit Kamera: Heiko Rahnenführer

Sound: Jens Mattner

Narration: Eva Mattes

Producers: Tina Leeb und Jürgen Kleinig

 

Produced for ARTE and ARD

 

Description 

 

A film about the notorious double agent and nuclear spy Werner Stiller who duped the "Stasi" (East Germany's secret police) by betraying his secrets to the CIA and BND. Risking his life, he burgled the Stasi headquarters and fled to the West.

The CIA changed his identity and the former mole became a millionaire stockbroker at Goldman Sachs.

Contains interviews with people he helped, and with others who he double-crossed. Stiller's life is a roller-coaster ride full of peril, sex and betrayal. So this isn't just an inside view East Germany's secretive foreign intelligence unit, but also of a man who has had ups and downs on an unimaginable scale.

 

Press quotes

 

Rudolph Herzog's documentary offers deep insights into the world of East-West espionage with all its turmoils.

—FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

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A film like a movie thriller. Rudolph Herzog grippingly tells the life story of Werner Stiller who was given a new identity by the CIA.

Rating: 6 of 6 stars

—NEUE OSNABRÜCKER ZEITUNG

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There's no better way to tell a story... a little masterpiece

—WESTDEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

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'The Agent' has a spectacular spy plot like in a movie, told grippingly

—THÜRINGER ALLGEMEINE

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Retraces an extraordinary trajectory that took (Stiller) from a small village in Thuringia to the heart of the CIA.

—PARIS MATCH

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The story of Werner Stiller, which film director Rudolph Herzog wants to tell as a 'study of mores' has every ingredient a juicy spy thriller needs.

—TAGESSPIEGEL

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