叛国

Based on actual historical events - which were again made into a film by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003 - ,"Der Fall Dr. Sorge" (Harlan's preferred title) deals with a communist spy organisation operating in Tokyo during WW II. Richard Sorge is the head of this organisation called 'The Cricket', pretending to be a journalist and using his good contacts to the German embassy to pass on information to the Soviet secret service and engineering the war. However, the Japanese officials as well as the nazis soon become aware of the organisation's activities. And when Sorge has an accident, it is the young secretary of the German embassy in Tokyo - Katharina von Weber (Söderbaum), who is in love with Sorge - who in spite of realising who he really is, tries to help him. But her attempts are doomed to failure...