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Rising to the Bait

Apr 23, 1992 · 1h 43m
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Comedy

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Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.

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Muriel Baumeister
Svetlana
Ben Becker
Funke
Elsa Grube-Deister
Ada Fenske
Rolf Zacher
Zwirner
Wolf-Dietrich Berg
Naujok
Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp
Raschke
Franziska Troegner
Trude
Udo Walz
Rechtsanwalt
Directed by Vadim Glowna

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