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Mar 26, 2009

1h 40m

★ 5.1

A poignant look at how a family may look

Overview

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist's values become warped.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Axman Production

Black Lantern Films

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Cast

Peter Kürten

Milan Kňažko

Advocate Wehner

Pavel Gajdoš

Marie Kürten

Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

Reception Clerk

Zuzana Kajnarová

Klein

Miroslav Táborský

Wenge

Jan Vlasák

Judge

Meto Jovanovski

Eva

Elena Stanisheva

Mrs. Kleinová

Zuzana Valchárová-Poulová

Attorney

Pavel Kikinčuk

Knacker

Norbert Lichý

Warder

Michael Hofbauer

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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