The Free Will

Aug 23, 2006

2h 43m

★ 6.9

Overview

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Colonia Media

ARD

The Free Will Trailers

Cast

Theo

Jürgen Vogel

Nettie

Sabine Timoteo

Sascha

André Hennicke

Nettie's father

Manfred Zapatka

Anja Schattschneider

Judith Engel

Sybille

Maya Bothe

Raped woman in the dunes

Anna Brass

Seller in department store

Anne-Kathrin Golinsky

Waitress

Anna De Carlo

Michael

Frank Wickermann

Singer of "Ave Maria"

Bernadette Büllmann

Toni

Marcel Batangtaris

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