COMANDANTE FRITZ

COMANDANTE FRITZ tells the story of a young Stasi officer, Fritz (Dennis Mojen), who is sent to Havana to oversee the official handover of “Isla Ernesto Thälmann“. The island off the Cuban coast is a gift from Fidel Castro to the German Democratic Republic (GDR): a sign of the close friendship between the “socialist brother” states during the Cold War. Fritz‘s mission is to thwart a possible CIA attack on the Máximo Líder during the handover. But his mission does not go according to plan, and when he meets a mys­terious Cuban woman Lola (Yany Prado), the Cold War quickly hots up for Fritz...