Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin to the scattered remnants of the RAF and its still functioning cable groups. Wolgast lived there in a shared apartment before he, like so many former terrorists, fled to the GDR in the 1980s. A former roommate of Hans Veith Seewald points out the parallel to Glauberg to a murder case from 1978.
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Heino Ferch
Kommissar Anton Glauberg
Known for
Downfall
Napoleon
Nadja Uhl
Paula Reinhardt - BKA Beamtin
Known for
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Men in the City
Birge Schade
Sylvia Glauberg
Known for
Dear Child
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Renate Siedler
Known for
Antibodies
A Woman in Berlin
Manfred Zapatka
Veith Seewald
Known for
The Collini Case
Erkan and Stefan
Otto Mellies
Known for
Back on Track
Ellen Schwiers
Known for
3096 Days
The Cow and I
Thomas Sarbacher
Known for
Windstorm 3
Markus Boysen
Dr. Berger
Known for
Dogs of Berlin
Hermann Beyer
Known for
Dark
The Elementary Particles
Jürgen Stahnke
Hans Wolgast
No other roles listed
Leonard Carow
Known for
War Horse
Who Am I
Matti Geschonneck Director · Thomas Kirchner Screenplay Ulrich Woelk Author
First release September 24, 2004 · Produced in Germany · Production Network Movie
Production
ZDF
Production
Network Movie
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · September 24, 2004
Premiere · Filmfest Hamburg
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Germany
March 14, 2005 · TV
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