The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1994
Der Mann mit der Maske
Directed by
Peter Schulze-Rohr
A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek investigates. After months of surveillance, everything points to a chaplain as the masked perpetrator, known as "Zorro". But the investigators were wrong, because "Zorro" strikes again when the chaplain is in custody. This time, charges were also filed. But not against "unknown", but against the son of the senior public prosecutor...
The story
A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek investigates. After months of surveillance, everything points to a chaplain as the masked perpetrator, known as "Zorro". But the investigators were wrong, because "Zorro" strikes again when the chaplain is in custody. This time, charges were also filed. But not against "unknown", but against the son of the senior public prosecutor...
Cast
Sebastian KochBernhard 'Bernd' Schild
Nicolette KrebitzIrene Häussler
Jürgen HentschArthur Schild
Klaus-Jürgen SteinmannKonrad Gawileck
Tatja SeibtMrs. Schild
Dietmar BärSchröder
Fabian HarloffSteffen
Dietmar Mues
Ernst AlischMinister
Hans-Jörg AssmannAttorney General
Axel GanzUsher
Judith KleinPetra
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