What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the instigation of your wife? In this lamentable situation is Heinrich Karpf. An unfine plan is supposed to bring about the change: where there is no spectacular case, one must be faked...
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Martin Benrath
Heinrich Karpf
Known for
Stalingrad
From the Life of the Marionettes
Agnes Fink
Irma Karpf
Also in
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Weights and Measures
Bernhard Wicki
Sven Nykvist
Günter Kunert
Also in
Farewell
Jochen Sostmann
Also in
Black Coffee
Polizeifunk ruft
George Gruntz
Margit Weinert
Also in
Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves
The Old Fox
Eva Maria Tittes
Alexander May
Known for
Pappa ante Portas
Johannes Buzalski
Known for
Mark of the Devil
Heinz Badewitz
Also in
Sylvie
Film or Power
Bernhard Wicki Director · Günter Kunert Writer Sven Nykvist Cinematographer
First release April 4, 1971 · Produced in Germany · Production WDR, Bavaria Film
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NDR
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WDR
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Bavaria Film
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Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
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Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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Bavaria Atelier
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Germany
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German
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German
Release dates
Germany · April 4, 1971
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