Die Sieger

During an operation that's going wrong, SWAT team member Karl Simon sees his former colleague Heinz Schaefer - who is dead. Simon discovers what he saw is not a ghost, nor a hallucination: Schaefer is alive, working undercover in a gray operation that is turning black...
Graf's masterpiece manqué: the original screenplay, which tackled links between the political establishment, the secret services and state-supported terrorism, was rejected by the funding bodies, who said they'd only support the project if it wasn't about terrorism. Graf and scenarist Schütter obliged (and hate themselves for it to this day). While Graf was shooting the film, the mystery-riddled Bad Kleinen incident occurred, leaving an RAF member and a GSG-9 police officer dead...
The most politically significant film made in the FRG during the Berlin Republic's first decade. Ramming home that - particularly in the light of recent events (the neo-Nazi 'Zwickau cell') - certain zones here remain opaque.