The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

Mar 27, 1994

2h 0m

★ 3.5

Overview

The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.

Genres

Crime

TV Movie

Production Companies

Touchstone Television

Von Zerneck Sertner Films

CBS

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Cast

Edna Buchanan

Elizabeth Montgomery

Detective Harry Lindstrom

Dennis Farina

Detective Martin Talbot

Yaphet Kotto

Monica/Edna's mother

Audra Lindley

Rodriguez

Branscombe Richmond

George

David Spielberg

Ben Nicholson

Lee Horsley

Sam

Matthew Posey

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil had come to Hinterkaifeck. On the farmstead near Schrobenhausen, all 6 inhabitants – 4 Adults and two children – are struck down bestially. The police did not manage to seek out the murderer(s). As the case is still unsolved as of today, the story still lives on in the minds of the people. Motion pictures, theatre plays, and the bestselling novel “Tannöd”, behind all of them stands Hinterkaifeck. Aspiring police investigators and a self-declared “Internet – special commission ‘Hinterkaifeck’” have now once again taken up the trail of the case. This exciting search for traces is followed by the film, and its findings are recreated in elaborate play scenes. Thereby, a picture of an era thought to be bygone and an idea of what really happened back then comes into existence. More precise than any fiction, the docudrama manages to get closer to the truth.

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