Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Hans W. Geissendörfer
Written : Friedrich Dürrenmatt Hans W. Geissendörfer
Stars : Maximilian Schell Thomas Heinze Anna Thalbach Mathias Gnädinger
Genres : Drama
Release date : Oct 13, 1993
Countries of origin : Germany Switzerland
Official sites : Swiss co-production's official site
Language : German
Production companies : Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) GFF
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Oct 13, 1993
Countries of origin : Germany Switzerland
Official sites : Swiss co-production's official site
Language : German
Production companies : Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) GFF