Overview

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.

Top Cast

Maximilian Schell

Isaak Kohler

Thomas Heinze

Felix Spät

Anna Thalbach

Helene Kohler

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Norbert Schwientek

Stüssi-Leupin

Hark Bohm

Prof. Adolf Winter

Ulrike Kriener

Ilse Freude

Suzanne von Borsody

Daphne Winter

Martin Semmelrogge

Lucky

Teresa Harder

Giselle

Wilfried Klaus

Gefängniswärter Moser

Mathias Gnädinger

Police Chief

Dietrich Siegl

Dr. Benno