| [Foreign Crime Drama] 1989: A Spy Story is a German film on MHz Choice about a Stasi spy who desperately works to hide her identity after her CIA co-workers discover there is a mole in their operation. Saskia Starke (Petra Schmidt-Schaller) is a well-heeled West German "Cultural Attaché" in the U.S. Embassy (and CIA station) in Berlin. When word comes down of an East German defector who has information on a Stasi mole in the station, Saskia has to sneak out of her husband’s birthday party to find the defector and eliminate him. But the threat is not gone, because the Berlin wall is about to fall, leaving Stasi spies vulnerable to exposure. Although 1989: A Spy Story is not a true story, it is based on true events and features some historical figures, such as Markus Wolf (Robert Hunger-Buhler), head of the Stasi’s foreign intelligence division. |