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Man Without a Face, Part 1 - Markus Wolf’s stellar rise (2-part documentary, 1998) Markus Wolf (75), a retired general, the legendary head of the GDR intelligence service, was only known to his western counterparts as “the man without a face“. In this 1998 documentary Markus Wolf, who had been sentenced to two years on probation in 1997, looks back upon his life. Does this man, now a successful author, have several faces one from the past and one of today? Wolf comments on different attitudes of the past and today with surprising frankness. This documentary reflects upon the biography of the head of espionage, on his bourgeois-communistic upbringing in Swabia, his emigration years in Stalin´s Moscow, his quick career within the headquarters of the eastern intelligence service situated in East Berlin, his defeats and victories, his farewell to the service, the changes in Eastern Europe, his escape, his trials and convictions. A film by Lew Hohmann
