
106 minutes
10/14/1993
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.

Maximilian Schell
as Isaak Kohler

Thomas Heinze
as Felix Spät

Anna Thalbach
as Helene Kohler
Norbert Schwientek
as Stüssi-Leupin

Hark Bohm
as Prof. Adolf Winter

Ulrike Kriener
as Ilse Freude

Suzanne von Borsody
as Daphne Winter

Martin Semmelrogge
as Lucky

Teresa Harder
as Giselle

Wilfried Klaus
as Gefängniswärter Moser
Mathias Gnädinger
as Police Chief

Dietrich Siegl
as Dr. Benno
René Scheibli
as Franz
Ellen Umlauf
as Maid of Kohler

David Ryall
as englischer Minister

Christoph Lindert
as Fredi Lienhard
Suzanne Thommen
as Frau Jämmerlin

Stefan Gubser
as Pressefotograf
Klaus-Henner Russius
as Gefängnisdirektor Zeller
Tiziana Jelmini
as Maid of Stuessi-Leupin

Roeland Wiesnekker
as Barkeeper at the Cafe
Jürgen Stößinger

Gert Burkard