Episode 1
Episode 1
45m7.0 / 10
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Directed by Florian GallenbergerWritten by Florian Gallenberger, Bernd Lange
TV series
The Turncoat
20201 season6.2 / 10
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
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Synopsis
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
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Episode 2
Episode 2
39m
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Directed by Florian GallenbergerWritten by Florian Gallenberger, Bernd Lange
Episode 3
Episode 3
43m
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Directed by Florian GallenbergerWritten by Florian Gallenberger, Bernd Lange
Episode 4
Episode 4
47mfinale
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Directed by Florian GallenbergerWritten by Florian Gallenberger, Bernd Lange
Episode information updated Sep 17, 2026
More about The Turncoat
Cast
Jannis NiewöhnerWalter Proska
Małgorzata MikołajczakWanda Zielinski
Leonie BeneschHildegard Roth
Rainer BockWilli Stehauf
Katharina SchüttlerMaria Rogalski
Bjarne MädelFerdinand 'Baffi' Ellerbrok
Sebastian UrzendowskyWolfgang Kürschner
Florian LukasPaul ZachariasCredits
- Created by
- Florian Gallenberger
- Written by
- Bernd Lange, Florian Gallenberger, Florian Gallenberger, Siegfried Lenz
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Miniseries
- Episodes
- 4
- Original language
- German
- Original title
- Der Überläufer
Networks & production
Das ErsteGermany
NDR FernsehenGermany
SWR FernsehenGermany
Dreamtool EntertainmentGermany
NDRGermany
SWRGermany
Themes
anti-fascismbased on novel or bookeast berlinpartisanpolitical repressionpost world war iiturncoatworld war ii
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