在德国没有比赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德更具争议、更高产且更痴迷于电影制作的导演了。他于1982年去世，年仅37岁，法斯宾德生前彻底改革了影院，留给后人共44部自导的电影和电视剧。前无古人，后无来者，再也没人能像赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德把德国社会描绘的如此真实刺骨，且两极分化程度之高。

Once with the Stasi, always with the Stasi? Once you were in the agent controller's grasp you could never escape - that's what they say, anyway. Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial informer for the GDR State Security Service for twenty years, broke with them in the 80's and exposed his identity. 'Vaterlandsverraeter' ('Traitors to the Fatherland') is a portrait of an exceptional man whose tumultuous life was propelled to extremes. Now more than 20 years after the end of the GDR, this is a story that was never told before.