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Film / 2010
Wolfsfährte
Directed by
Urs Egger
A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer Gerhard Weiss argues that the bloody fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were based on authentic models. Is the Hamburg fairy tale murderer inspired by Weiss's novel?
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A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer Gerhard Weiss argues that the bloody fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were based on authentic models. Is the Hamburg fairy tale murderer inspired by Weiss's novel?
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Cast
Peter LohmeyerKriminalhauptkommissar Jan Fabel
Lisa Maria PotthoffKriminaloberkommissarin Maria Klee
Hinnerk SchönemannKriminalkommissar Henk Hermann
Marie-Lou SellemDr. Susanne Eckhardt
Lutz BlochbergerWerner Meyer
Manfred Lehmannvan Heiden
Markus BoysenGerhard Weiss
Corinna KirchhoffVera Schiller
Lars RudolphAki Lührs
Bruno CathomasHolger Brauner
David SchellerPeter Olsen
Marion MitterhammerFrau Ehlers
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