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Watched the first episode of Deutschland 86 last night.
It carries on from the previous series, Deutschland 83, and continues with the further adventures of the East German Stasi agents of Martin, Lenora and the disgraced Walter. It is 1986 now and the Stasi agents Martin and Lenora are in Apartheid South Africa selling West German arms to the Botha regime. East Germany is in dire economic difficulties (remember, the series is set just three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall) and has been all but abandoned by its Soviet Union ally. Nearly bankrupt, the main concern for the East Germans is getting Western currencies no matter how, even if it means dealing with political opposite regimes like the South Africans or employing Capitalist methods to obtain hard currencies.
Meanwhile, in East Berlin poor Walter is trying hard to get back into the inner circle of the East German secret services after his banishment in the last series. He is finally granted access to a team dealing with West German drug manufacturers, who pay the East Germans to test the West German drugs on East German patients, but has to work under a much younger female boss, Annett, whom he had actually hired in the first place. Annett is a junior intelligence agent, the new blood that East Germany is relying on, whose former lover fled to the West to become a writer.
In the background we see the slow collapse of the East German regime, bit by bit.
It carries on from the previous series, Deutschland 83, and continues with the further adventures of the East German Stasi agents of Martin, Lenora and the disgraced Walter. It is 1986 now and the Stasi agents Martin and Lenora are in Apartheid South Africa selling West German arms to the Botha regime. East Germany is in dire economic difficulties (remember, the series is set just three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall) and has been all but abandoned by its Soviet Union ally. Nearly bankrupt, the main concern for the East Germans is getting Western currencies no matter how, even if it means dealing with political opposite regimes like the South Africans or employing Capitalist methods to obtain hard currencies.
Meanwhile, in East Berlin poor Walter is trying hard to get back into the inner circle of the East German secret services after his banishment in the last series. He is finally granted access to a team dealing with West German drug manufacturers, who pay the East Germans to test the West German drugs on East German patients, but has to work under a much younger female boss, Annett, whom he had actually hired in the first place. Annett is a junior intelligence agent, the new blood that East Germany is relying on, whose former lover fled to the West to become a writer.
In the background we see the slow collapse of the East German regime, bit by bit.
