Release Date

30 Dec, 1960

Runtime

01:42: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

Original Title

Der letzte Zeuge

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Actors

Martin Held

Hanns Lothar

Ellen Schwiers

Jürgen Goslar

Adelheid Seeck

Werner Hinz

Lore Hartling

Siegfried Wischnewski

Harald Juhnke

Otto Graf

Albert Bessler

Lucie Mannheim

Hans Hessling

Hellmut Grube

Rudi Schmitt

Herbert Tiede

Blandine Ebinger

Martin Berliner

Tilly Lauenstein

Ursula Diestel

Maria Milde

Crew

Kurt Ulrich

Wolfgang Wehrum

Wolfgang Staudte

Thomas Keck

Robert A. Stemmle

Maximilian Vernberg

Werner Eisbrenner

Ekkehard Kyrath