Films by Klaus Dexel

Germany 2013, 92 min
by Klaus Dexel

One of the most mysterious assassinations of the Cold War happened on Waterloo Bridge in London on September 7th, 1978: Bulgarian writer and journalist Georgi Markov was poisoned by a stab in the leg presumably through the tip of an umbrella. Markov died four days later of heart failure. In February 2010 the TIME magazine listed the murder of Georgi Markov at number 5 of the "Top 10 Assassination Plots of the World". The victim, Georgi Markov worked as a journalist for the BBC, Deutsche Welle an