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Keywords
  • student
  • suicide
  • tv mini series
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Jan 17, 1981
Countries of origin West Germany
Language German
Filming locations Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Production companies Elan-Film Gierke & Company

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

An engine driver pulls the emergency brake- too late : the young man on the tracks, the student Claus Wagner ( Till Topf ) is dead. Commissioner Löschner investigates in his surroundings and interrogates Claus' parents, schoolmates and his girlfriend Inge ( Ute Christensen ) . What had driven the student to his act of desperation ?

Within self-contained flashbacks, Claus' tragical story is told from different points of view. Just as in a kaleidoscope, seemingly equal fragments appear in six epsiodes in always new, surprising cohesions. Only at the end, to concurrence of all events becomes visible, all the moments of failure and deception that eventually drove Claus Wagner to suicide.

As a result of Löschner's investigations, there only remains to say, that " some people might need to talk with themselves" ...

( cited from the description of the DVD )

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