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The Contract

The Contract

★ 9.0/10•1988•50m•12•Drama
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The Cold War heats up on the German border.

A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

StatusEnded
Runtime50m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 3, 1988

Episodes

E150m

Part 1

British intelligence must convince Russian scientist Wilhelm Guttmann to come to the United Kingdom, but with his son in their hands, former soldier Johnny Donoghue is tasked with securing his cooperation amid Cold War tensions.

Jan 3, 1988

E253m

Part 2

Donoghue goes undercover in Berlin to make contact with Guttmann and persuade him to defect, navigating tense East German surveillance and diplomatic complications between the British and West Germans.

Jan 4, 1988

E352m

Part 3

Abandoned in East Germany as the operation unravels, Donoghue charges on with a desperate plan to smuggle Guttmann and his daughter across the border into West Germany.

Jan 5, 1988

Actors

Kevin McNally

Kevin McNally

Johnny Donoghue

Bernard Hepton

Bernard Hepton

Henry Carter

James Faulkner

James Faulkner

Charles Mawby

Hans Caninenberg

Hans Caninenberg

Professor Guttman

Brigitte Karner

Brigitte Karner

Erica Guttman

Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff

Willi Guttmann

Donald Pickering

Donald Pickering

Permanent Undersecretary

Robert Lang

Robert Lang

Deputy Undersecretary

Bert Parnaby

Adam Percy

Claus-Peter Seifert

Ulf Becker

Hans Schödel

Heini Schalke

Katharina Abt

Jutte Hamburg

Marion Kracht

Marion Kracht

Renate

Edward Clayton

Charlie Davies

Judy Holt

Lizzie Forsyth

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