Overview
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don't just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper's leaders.
Cast
- Jürgen Prochnow as Günter Wallraff
- Peter Coyote as Henry Tobel
- Nathalie Baye as Christine
- Dieter Laser as Leonard Schröter
- Dieter Prochnow as Franz Messer
- Gert Haucke as Heinz Herbert Schultz
- Günter Meisner as Richter
- László I. Kish as 2nd State Security Man
- Sylvie Granotier as Kathy Heller