4.8Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestMartin is held and tortured by Valdez, who wants to force a false confession. Brigitte teams up with Schweppenstette to save Martin and faces off with Lenora. Nina and Fritz discover the HVA in exile and have a proposition for Fuchs and Dietrich.
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.
Production
Period-perfect 1980s Germany down to the wallpaper patterns.
Acting
Jonas Nay's face does three betrayals per episode.
Score
Synth-pop soundtrack that slaps while crushing your soul.
Jonas Nay
Martin Rauch / Moritz Stamm / Frank Jonas
Maria Schrader
Lenora Rauch
Svenja Jung
Nicole Zangen, professeur de Max
Sylvester Groth
Walter Schweppenstette
Carina Wiese
Ingrid Rauch
Lavinia Wilson
Brigitte Winkelmann
Sonja Gerhardt
Annett Schneider
Alexander Beyer
Tobias Tischbier
Uwe Preuss
Markus Fuchs
Fritzi Haberlandt
Tina Fischer
Florence Kasumba
Rose Seithathi
Ludwig Trepte
Alex Edel
Godehard Giese
Karl Kramer
Vladimir Burlakov
Thomas Posimski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Wingers are a married showrunner duo—she's American, he's German, and they mined their own cross-cultural marriage for the East-West tension.
The series sparked renewed German debate about Ostalgie and Stasi victim compensation, with former East Germans praising its emotional accuracy.
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