Goods for Catalonia

Ware fr Katalonien Englishlanguage title Goods For Catalonia is an East German blackandwhite film, directed by Richard Groschopp. It was released in 1959.

At 1957, the West German criminal Hasso Schtzendorf organized a complex fraud his partners, using forged documents, managed to take possession on the entire stock of optical instruments produced by the Zeiss factory in Jena, East Germany. He sold them to clients in Barcelona. Schtzendorf managed to escape justice, settling in Spain, where he lived as a rich man until his death at 2003. The film Ware fur Katalonien was loosely based on this incident, although the villain Hasso Teschendorf was caught in the end.Director Richard Groschopp was awarded the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic in 1959 for his work on the film. He later received a letter from Schtzendorf, who wrote him Dear Groschopp, please be more realistic next time... Arresting me just before reaching the Brandenburg Gate? Are you that deluded? ........

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