Directed by: János Veiczi
Script: János Veiczi
Producer: Siegfried Kabitzke
Production company: DEFA-Studio
Cinematography: Karl Plintzner
Editing: Christel Ehrlich
Music: Günter Hauk
Cast: Alfred Müller, Helmut Schreiber, Ivan Palec, Hans Lucke, Werner Lierck, Eva-Maria Hagen, Peter Marx

Format: video
Running time: 96'

Synopsis
Hansen works as an undercover agent for the GDR at a secret service HQ, disguised as a commercial enterprise, that is run by the US army in Würzburg. He has already blown the cover of several American spies with the result that his boss has to take serious measures to stop the leak in his own ranks. Increasingly Hansen comes into his sights, yet he succeeds in passing a lie-detector test with flying colours and so manages to give himself enough time to get away with secret documents for a planned invasion of the GDR. The accusation that the West was planning to attack the GDR was one of the pretences that aimed to legitimise the building of the Wall. For Eyes Only came out in the GDR in July 1963. It was a great hit with audiences and provided a ideologised yet nevertheless excitingly-enacted illustration of this accusation (which was in fact never substantiated). The storyline as well as the character of Hansen as a “scout of peace” (the name given to Stasi spies in GDR terminology) was clearly based on Western genre types in terms of style, tone and tempo.

Directors Biography
János Veiczi, born in Budapest 1924, died in Berlin. From 1949 till 1952 studied directing and dramaturgy studies at the DEFA studio for young talents. In 1956 he made a debut as a director with Incident In Benderath. From then on director, screenwriter and actor for the DEFA.

Location and screening schedule: ZAGREB DANCE CENTRE, Thursday, October 18th at 18.00