Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze, Anna Thalbach, Norbert Schwientek, Hark Bohm, Ulrike Kriener
Crew: Hans W. Geißendörfer (Director), Rudolf Santschi (Co-Producer), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Novel), Hans-Günther Bücking (Director of Photography), Hans W. Geißendörfer (Producer), Annette Dorn (Editor)
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Language: Deutsch
Studio: GFF, BR, SWR, Triluna Film AG, SRF
Runtime: 106 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 14, 1993
IMDb: 5.6
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