The automatic death system

Director: Niki Stein
2007 x 90 min

Bretschneider detonates an SM-70 (from the west) as proof

the SM-70 in the movie …

… explodes

Bretschneider dismantles an SM-70 during the 2nd action …

Close-up: Cutting the release wire

… and he presents the weapon, which until then had been hushed up in the West, to Der Spiegel

Bretschneider office

Bretschneider’s workshop

… with a prepared getaway vehicle

Location

Set Bretschneider's apartment in the 70s

Location for Bretschneider’s apartment

Set Bretschneider’s apartment in the 70s

at the transit border station

Set Mitropa Transit restaurant

Mitropa still life

Sketches for the GDR Flashbacks in the 60s

Sketch for FDJ celebration

Set FDJ celebration 1960

Smoking salonIn front of Lenarth’s house

the ‘crime’: anti-socialist graffiti

Set Stasi interrogation room

the conviction

in the prison yard

Stasi prison

Torture methods

Crew
Screenplay Wieland Bauder, Niki Stein
Director Niki Stein
Camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
Szenenbild Benedikt Herforth
Costume Anette Schröder, Jacki Engelken
music Ulrik Spies
Editing Barbara Hennings
Production Polyphonic
Producer Johannes Pollmann
RoleCast
Lutz LenarthStephan Kampwirth
Lutz Lenarth youngRobert Gwisdeck
Manfred BrettschneiderMišel Matičević
Manfred Brettschneider young Philipp Danne 
Bernd BriesowMatthias Klimsa 
Bernd Briesow youngJannik Büddig
JudgeSven Lehmann
Mountain (mirror)Werner Wölbern
Mrs. HansenCorinna Kirchhoff