Desc: Die Ulbricht-Attentäter von Steinbach - Eine Fiktion der Stasi: Directed by Michael Erler. With Rainer Grauel, René Hübner, Werner Iffert, Frank Malsch. In 1972, in a secret trial, 5 men were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for the planned assassination attempt on the head of state of the GDR - Walter Ulbricht. They have served their sentence, even if such an assassination was only in the eyes of the investigators. In the Thuringian town of Steinbach, people didn't love the authorities so much and politics was scolded in various pub talks. Especially since the representatives of the party and state leadership took a cure right in front of the Steinbachers in the nearby sanatorium. The Steinbachers are also passionate hunters. All of this in connection with anti-state statements in the local pub triggered the highest level of alert from the Stasi. Two suspected "enemies of the state" were arrested, and the entire town was suddenly in the investigators' net. Weapons were found and other people arrested. From 1968 to 1972, the GDR State Security Service meticulously put together a puzzle using extorted confessions and suitable clues, which resulted in a precisely prepared assassination attempt. After four years of investigations, the Stasi needed success, but could only present flimsy information. Nevertheless, the penalties for the main suspects were unusually high.