German Watergate
An aspiring young politician named Willy Brandt wants to become German Chancellor, but the current Chancellor Konrad Adenauer wants to prevent this at all costs and by any means necessary. Adenauer has the secret service and old alliances with a Nazi past on his side and has Brandt's election campaign spied on and torpedoed by informants in the party executive. He pulls out all the tricks to outdo the charismatic Brandt. The Federal Chancellor does not stop at damaging his reputation and defaming him - all in order to maintain his power and defeat the supposed communist "enemy".
Storyline
An aspiring young politician named Willy Brandt wants to become German Chancellor, but the current Chancellor Konrad Adenauer wants to prevent this at all costs and by any means necessary. Adenauer has the secret service and old alliances with a Nazi past on his side and has Brandt's election campaign spied on and torpedoed by informants in the party executive. He pulls out all the tricks to outdo the charismatic Brandt. The Federal Chancellor does not stop at damaging his reputation and defaming him - all in order to maintain his power and defeat the supposed communist "enemy".
Recommended

The Lives of Others
2006

Buffalo Soldiers
2002

The Infernal Machine
2022

Atomic Blonde
2017

Torn Curtain
1966

Funeral in Berlin
1966

Backstabbing for Beginners
2018

All the Old Knives
2022

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008

The Independent
2022

The Batman
2022

Night of the Hunted
2023
More Like This

The Lives of Others
2006

Kings Bay
2017

The Shepherd: Border Patrol
2008

Enemy of the State
1998

Hardware
1990

Public Enemies
2009

Tage des Sturms
2003

Murder at 1600
1997

Fabian: Going to the Dogs
2021

Donnie Brasco
1997

Dolan's Cadillac
2009

Executive Decision
1996