Girl in the Basement
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Film / 1999
Die Todesgrippe von Köln
Directed by
Christiane Balthasar
Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus researcher, dead in their apartment. Everything points to suicide, but an unusual trail leads her and her stepson Jan to an apartment rented by Reinhard. Reinhard was apparently secretly researching a deadly virus there.
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Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus researcher, dead in their apartment. Everything points to suicide, but an unusual trail leads her and her stepson Jan to an apartment rented by Reinhard. Reinhard was apparently secretly researching a deadly virus there.
Cast
Ann-Kathrin KramerSonja
Robert StadloberJan
Reiner SchöneWerner Nielsen
Max HerbrechterReinhard Kessler
Charlotte SchwabInspector Rudolph
Claus Dieter ClausnitzerClaus Steenbeck
Ute WillingDr. C. Schoof
Denis MoschittoOlaf
Andreas WindhuisBusmann
Georg PrangArnold
Dirk BöhlingJournalist
Herbert SchäferReporter
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