48 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestTony's life has been turned upside down. After she confronts her family with a cruel truth and nobody believes her, she leaves her parents' house with a few belongings and moves in with Wolfgang. The two realize how strong their feelings are for each other, even when everything is crumbling around them.
Bonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the terrors and legacies of World War II and longing for a 'normal' life. Into this heady and volatile mix steps Toni, a young woman determined to seize every opportunity, overcome every obstacle and make her own way in what is still a very male-dominated society. But what at first appears to be only an entry-level office job at one of the country's two competing secret services soon sucks her ever deeper into a clandestine world of secrets and suspicion. Based on true events.
Acting
Müller's performance: watchful, hungry, devastatingly controlled.
Production
Rebuilt 1950s Bonn feels lived-in, not museum-piece.
Writing
True events adapted with bitter, unsentimental clarity.
Mercedes Müller
Toni Schmidt
Max Riemelt
Wolfgang Berns
Sebastian Blomberg
Otto John
Martin Wuttke
Reinhard Gehlen
Juergen Maurer
Gerd Schmidt
Katharina M. Schubert
Else Schmidt
Inga Busch
Lucie John
Luise von Finckh
Ingrid Schmidt
Julius Feldmeier
Hartmut Redlich
Johanna Gastdorf
Ursula
Carl Achleitner
Joseph von Waidburg
Sascha Nathan
Hans Globke
Dirk Ossig
Constantin Reeden
Christian Harting
Noah Berret
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Claudia Garde spent years in Germany's Federal Archives; Gehlen's real files remain partially classified.
The series dramatizes the actual 'Gehlen Organization,' which became the BND—West Germany's CIA, staffed heavily by ex-Nazis.
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