[Mesnick]

Speaking of something very vaguely related to tokusatsu... From 1973 to 1979, the spy series "Invisible Sight" was released in the GDR, that is, East Germany. Two episodes from it, released in 1978, were called “King Kong Flu.” In the Union they were shown in cinemas as an independence movie. The plot is that the Americans have developed a deadly virus that first acts like a regular flu, and then the patient turns into a violent, uncontrollable animal. They test it in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), one of the experimental subjects escapes, the Stasi becomes aware of him and espionage squabbles begin. The connection with King Kong is very tentative, although to confirm it, they play the 1933 film in the background. At that time, the social bloc could not agree on the screening of King Kong 1976, so it was a kind of attempt to console fans of the giant ape in Eastern Europe.